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World
This week in history: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
April 17, 2018For four weeks, residents of the Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, Poland, staged an armed revolt against deportations to extermination camps.
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U.S.
This week in history: Fair housing becomes the law of the land
April 9, 2018The Fair Housing Act of 1968 prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin or sex.
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U.S.
This week in history: Saugus Iron Works, 50 years a National Historic Site
April 3, 2018On April 5, 1968, the Saugus Iron Works was added to the National Park Service system and renamed the Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site.
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Labor
This week in labor history: Chicago stockyard workers win 8-hour day
March 26, 2018“Eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, and eight hours for what you will” became the international call for labor rights in the 19th century.
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Politics
Millions turning out nationwide to stop gun violence
March 23, 2018Students are leading massive protests this weekend in Washington D.C. and in cities across the country.
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Labor
This week in history: IWW members tried in 1918 for “obstructing the war”
March 19, 2018The resistance to U.S. militarism and capitalism by the Wobblies should be a lesson for those resisting today.
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World
This week in history: My Lai massacre 50 years ago
March 12, 2018American soldiers brutally slaughtered more than 500 unarmed civilians at My Lai, one of a cluster of small villages located near the northern coast of South Vietnam.
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Environment
This week in history: Mine explosion kills 74 in Montana
February 27, 2018Seventy-five years ago, an explosion at the Montana Coal and Iron Company mine, near Red Lodge, the county seat for Carbon County, killed 74 workers.
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