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All posts tagged "Bread and Roses strike"

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In 1915, Independence Day Was Americanization Day
“What is Americanization?” Future Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis posed the question to a packed audience at Faneuil Hall in Boston marking...
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Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Rebel Girl Leader of the Working Class
In 1906, 16-year-old Elizabeth Gurley Flynn stood on a soapbox near New York’s Times Square and delivered a fiery speech championing workers’...

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