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Picture of Maida Springer Kemp and two other young African American women colleagues.

Maida Springer Kemp Championed Workers’ Rights on a Global Scale

The Panamanian garment worker turned labor organizer, Pan-Africanist, and anti-colonial activist advocated for US and African workers amid a Cold War freeze.
by Kim Kelly via The Nation on February 4, 2022
Black Americans picketing for equal wages and improved working conditions during WWII.

We Need “CRT” to Understand the Midwest, Too

You can't tell the story of Midwestern cities like Toledo without being honest about their white supremacy problems.
by Bradley J. Sommer via The Activist History Review on January 13, 2022
Illustration of picket signs coming out of a coffin.

Picket Lines in the Graveyard

A history of cemetery workers' strikes.
by Kim Kelly via Protean on October 31, 2021
FDR signing bill

That Time America Almost Had a 30-Hour Workweek

A six-hour workday could have become the national standard during the Great Depression. Here's the story of why that didn't happen.
by Gillian Brockell via Retropolis on September 6, 2021
Bayard Rustin, A. Philip Randolph, and John Morsell hold a press conference in 1963

A Vision of Racial and Economic Justice

A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin knew the fates of the civil rights and labor movements were intertwined. The same is true today.
by Norman Hill, Velma Murphy Hill via Dissent on May 19, 2021
Union workers march past the Tennessee National Guard in Memphis.
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MLK’s Radical Vision Was Rooted in a Long History of Black Unionism

Why unionism is so integral to achieving equality.
by Peter Cole via Made By History on April 4, 2021
A man sitting on a table.

A More Perfect Union

On the Black labor organizers who fought for civil rights after Reconstruction and through the twentieth century.
by Arvind Dilawar via Lapham’s Quarterly on November 16, 2020
Mugshot of Eugene Debs

Eugene Debs Was an American Hero

He forced the country to engage in a three-year conversation about the meaning of free speech that shaped policy and law after World War I.
by Shawn Gude, Ernest Freeberg via Jacobin on June 16, 2020

When the Seattle General Strike and the 1918 Flu Collided

The first major general strike in the United States coincided with the last major pandemic. Here’s the full story.
by Cal Winslow via Jacobin on May 1, 2020
National civil rights leaders (L-R) John Lewis, Whitney Young Jr, A. Philip Randolph, Dr Martin Luther King Jr, James Farmer, and Roy Wilkins pose behind a banquet table at the Hotel Roosevelt as they meet to formulate plans for the March on Washington and to bring about the passage of civil rights legislation, on July 2, 1963 in New York City. (Hulton Archive / Getty Images)

The Emancipatory Past and Future of Black Politics

75 years ago, black leaders and activists shared a consensus around the importance of the labor movement and multiracial class organizing for black liberation.
by Paul Prescod via Jacobin on January 27, 2020

The Power of the Black Working Class

In order to understand America, we have to understand the struggles of the black working class.
by Keisha N. Blain, Joe William Trotter Jr. via Jacobin on December 4, 2019
Disney animators on strike, 1941.

Animators Brought a Guillotine to the Disney Labor Strike in 1941

It wasn’t simply a static symbol – the “blade” actually moved.
by Matt Novak via Paleofuture on November 26, 2019

No Refuge

When Congress gave the Secretary of Labor discretion over any immigrant “likely to become a public charge,” they weren’t expecting someone like Frances Perkins.
by Rebecca Brenner Graham via Contingent on August 23, 2019
United Mine Workers on a picket line.

The Past and Future of the American Strike

A new book tells the history of America through its workplace struggles.
by Richard Yeselson via The Nation on March 21, 2019
Black and white photograph of workers of various affiliations march together at a 1946 May Day parade in New York City, holding signs about "world labor unity."

Welcome to Operation Dixie, the Most Ambitious Unionization Attempt in the U.S.

Southern segregation, racism and a militarized police meant the plan was destined to fail.
by Meagan Day via Medium on May 8, 2018
Firefighters trying to put out the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire in 1911.

How Poor, Mostly Jewish Immigrants Organized 20,000 and Fought for Workers Rights

These women came ready to fight.
by Meagan Day via Timeline on March 9, 2018
Engraving of the 1886 Haymarket protest

When Labor Day Meant Something

Remembering the radical past of a day now devoted to picnics and back-to-school sales.
by Chad Broughton via The Atlantic on September 1, 2014

May Day's Radical History

The date of Occupy's strike has ties to the eight-hour day movement, immigrant workers and American anarchism.
by Jacob Remes via Salon on April 30, 2012

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