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Norwegian Workers Association Raid (1851) On this day in 1851, police raided the Norwegian Workers Association, seizing documents, suppressing their newspaper, and arresting five board members,...
Grabow Riot (1912) On this day in 1912, a riot broke out in Grabow, Louisiana when gunfire was exchanged between organizing lumber workers and private gunmen hired by the Galloway Lumber Company,...
Wagner Act (1935) The National Labor Relations Act is a U.S. labor law that became effective on this day in 1935, guaranteeing the right of private sector employees to organize trade unions,...
Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954) Frida Kahlo, born on this day in 1907, was a Mexican artist and revolutionary communist known for her folk-art inspired style paintings, touching on themes on gender,...
Clara Zetkin (1857 - 1933) Clara Zetkin, born on this day in 1857, was a German Marxist theorist, activist, and feminist, active in the revolutionary Spartacist League and the Communist Party of...
The Mayor of Calgary, Canada, just received this warning letter about constructing bike lanes
Immigration Act of 1864 Passed on this day in 1864, the Immigration Act legalized wage-based indentured servitude to encourage immigration to the United States, allowing immigrants to forgo a...
Anti-Rent Movement Begins (1839) On this day in 1839, tenant farmers on New York's oldest estate assembled in Albany County to adopt a declaration of independence from their landlord, initiating...
Paterson Textile Strike (1835) On this day in 1835, 2,000 workers, most of them children, from more than twenty textile mills in Paterson, New Jersey went on strike to demand working hours be...
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860 - 1935) Charlotte Perkins Gilman, born on this day in 1860, was a prominent American humanist, author, socialist, and feminist, probably best known today for her...
Patrice Lumumba (1925 - 1961) Patrice Lumumba, born on this day in 1925, was a Congolese anti-colonial revolutionary who served as the first Prime Minister of the independent Democratic Republic...
Medgar Evers (1925 - 1963) Medgar Evers, born on this day in 1925, was an American civil rights leader who achieved national prominence for his efforts in fighting racial oppression in...