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Today in women’s history: Civil rights leader and suffragist Ida B. Wells died

March 25, 2014 By Special to People’s World

Wells was an outstanding civil rights activist and journalist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

International Women’s Day: Born in the USA

March 11, 2014 By Special to People’s World

nternational Women's Day, grew from the struggle of working women to form trade unions and the fight for women's right to vote.

Today in black history: Civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson dies, becomes catalyst for Selma march

February 26, 2014 By Teresa Albano

Twenty-six year old civil rights protester Jimmie Lee Jackson died this day, Feb. 26, 1965, from gunshot wounds inflicted by Alabama State Trooper after marching in a peaceful protest.

AFL-CIO calls for restoration of the Voting Rights Act

February 20, 2014 By Special to People’s World

The AFL-CIO's executive council unanimously passed a resolution Feb. 19 calling for the passage of strong federal legislation to restore the Voting Rights Act.

Closing wealth gap tops Obama’s State of the Union

January 29, 2014 By John Wojcik

President Obama, in his 2014 State of the Union speech here last night, defined narrowing of the unprecedented wealth gap in America as a major task facing the nation.