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Jackie Robinson integrates baseball: Daily Worker archives 1947
April 16, 2018"The cheers for Robinson are saying something, something that will make it easier for Negro players to come, for the day when there’ll be no special pressure upon an American ballplayer whose skin happens to be...
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Remembering Claudia Jones, Communist leader who spoke for black women
December 24, 2016Jones’ analysis of black women’s oppression and her vision of black women as political activists remain meaningful even a half-century after her death.
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Today in labor history: Organizer Ella Reeve “Mother” Bloor born
July 8, 2014Bloor investigated child labor in glass factories and mines, and worked undercover in meat packing plants to verify for federal investigators the nightmarish working conditions
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Today in labor history: Labor organizer “Mother” Bloor born
July 8, 2013On July 8, 1862, labor organizer and leading communist Ella Reeve "Mother" Bloor was born on Staten Island, N.Y.
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Woody Guthrie’s first Daily Worker column
July 12, 2012Woody Sez "The national debit is one thing I caint figger out"
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