Most of the demands of labor unions were met in the 1912 Lawrence textile strike.
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The populist Las Gorras Blancas published a human rights declaration.
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In early March 2020, the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 threat to be great enough to warrant labeling it a pandemic.
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Rev. James Reeb died as a result of being severely beaten by a group of white men during Bloody Sunday in Selma two days earlier.
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The Constitution of the Confederate States of America was adopted a month before the Civil War started.
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Thousands of Black leaders gathered to create a cohesive political strategy at the National Black Political Convention in Gary, Indiana.
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African Americans in Little Rock organized a boycott and “we walk” league to protest the Streetcar Segregation Act.
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A white mob seized three African American business men in Memphis, Tennessee and lynched them without trial.
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The Lowry Band helped guide General Sherman on his march to end the Civil War.
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In 1975, the United Nations began celebrating International Women’s Day on March 8.
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A cab driver, a day care provider, and two professors broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, and stole more than 1,000 classified documents.
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In 1966, 14 Black employees filed a complaint with the EEOC claiming that they were discriminated against in hiring and promotion at a power plant in North Carolina. Five years later, the Supreme Court delivered its landmark unanimous ruling prohibiting discriminatory practices by employers.
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To protest the police murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson and for voting rights, more than 600 people began a peaceful march from Selma to Montgomery.
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Four Black teenagers tried to enter the whites-only St. Helena branch of the Audubon Regional Library in Greensburg, Louisiana. Instead, the library closed. Undeterred, the St. Helena Four continued to try to desegregate the local library and other segregated facilities.
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Four students and a staffer at the University of South Florida faced felony charges following a rally protesting Florida governor DeSantis’ continued restrictions on and defunding of education in the state.
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The Supreme Court declared in horrific Dred Scott v. Sandford ruling that “Any person descended from Africans, whether slave or free, is not a citizen of U.S.”
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The impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson began in the Senate.
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Crispus Attucks was the first person shot to death by the British during the Boston Massacre.
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Frances Perkins became Secretary of Labor, and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet.
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