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Gerda Lerner, pioneering scholar of women’s, African-American history

January 8, 2013 By Marc Brodine

Gerda Lerner, whose life went from Jewish radical activist in Austria to refugee from Nazism to prominent U.S. historian, passed away in Madison, Wisc., at the age of 92, this month.

Today in labor history: New Orleans slave uprising

January 8, 2013 By Special to People’s World

The revolt consisted of somewhere between 300-500 people.

Today in labor history: Labor radical Tom Mooney freed

January 7, 2013 By Special to People’s World

Radical labor activist Tom Mooney, accused of a murder by bombing in San Francisco, was pardoned and freed after 22 years in San Quentin.

“Free the Wilmington Ten!” forty years later

January 4, 2013 By Scott Marshall

Forty years. Damn it's been a long time.

Today in labor history: Starving farmers demand food

January 3, 2013 By Special to People’s World

In the depths of the Great Depression, some 500 farmers marched into the town of England, Ark., to demand food for their starving families.