Film. Directed Steven John Ross and written by Candace O'Connor. 1999. 56 minutes.
Archival footage, photographs, and first-hand accounts of sharecroppers — Black and white — organizing in Missouri.
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Profile. By Gabriel Thompson. 2013.
Introduction to little-known but influential labor organizer Fred Ross (1910-1992), who trained many activists of note including Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez.
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Article. By Bill Bigelow and Norm Diamond. 1988.
Teaching insights and introduction to using The Power In Our Hands curriculum book.
Teaching Activity by Bill Bigelow and Norm Diamond
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Profile. Zinn Education Project.
Brief bios of two dozen women of note in the labor movement.
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Book — Non-fiction. By David Bacon. 2013. 328 pages.
The story of the growing resistance of Mexican communities to the poverty that forces people to migrate to the United States.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Frank Bardacke. 2012. 848 pages.
A reappraisal of the political trajectory of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers.
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Book — Fiction. By Margarita Engle. 2016. 272 pages.
Historical fiction in free verse about the building of the Panama Canal.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Robert Rodgers Korstad. 2003. 576 pages.
Chronicles the rise and fall of the union that represented thousands of African American tobacco factory workers in Winston-Salem, N.C.
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A peaceful demonstration in Chicago for the eight-hour day ended in tragedy when the police barged in and a bomb exploded.
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Book — Non-fiction. By James Green. 2015. 448 pages.
History of one of the most protracted and deadly labor struggles in U.S. history that was waged in West Virginia.
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Profile.
Overview of the farm labor organization, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, with artwork by Erin Currier.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Mary Cronk Farrell. 2016. 56 pages.
Biography of labor union activist Fannie Sellins.
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The Italian Hall disaster killed 73 people, 59 of them children, from families of striking copper miners.
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The end of fighting at the Battle of Blair Mountain, which was the largest example of class war in U.S. history.
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Due to the results of the strength of organized labor and other mass movements of the 1930s, the Social Security Act was passed.
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IWW labor organizer Frank Little was lynched from a railroad trestle.
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The Chicago Police Department shot and killed ten unarmed demonstrators in Chicago on Memorial Day.
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President Andrew Jackson used federal troops to suppress worker organizing.
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The 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act was signed, prohibiting Chinese immigration to the United States.
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Teachers and administrators from the Florida Education Association (FEA) walked out in what is reported to be the first statewide teachers’ strike.
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Russian Jewish anarchist Emma Goldman was arrested for distributing materials about birth control in violation of the Comstock Act.
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Over 1,100 sanitation workers strike and march for better wages, conditions, and safety with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee.
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The National Guard fired on striking miners and their families in Ludlow, Colorado.
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Miners in Coeur d’Alene held a strike and took on the Pinkertons.
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