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No Age Limit for Justice: A Q&A with Jennifer Robin Terry, winner of the 2024 Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Article Prize
Jul 08 2024
Jennifer Robin TerryThis year's Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Article Prize was awarded to Jennifer Robin Terry for her article, "Niños por la causa: Child Activists and the United Farm Workers Movement, 1965–1975," published in Pacific Historical Review. Drawing on a wide variety of
Lessons from the Wobblies for Labor Activism Today
Dec 19 2022
By Ahmed White, author of Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical WorkersIn the late 1910s and early 1920s, the Industrial Workers of the World was the target of the most intensive campaign of state-sponsored repression in American history. A story of violence, law,
How May Day 1930 Hastened Myles Horton’s Radical Labor Activism
May 01 2021
By Stephen Preskill, author of Education in Black and White: Myles Horton and the Highlander Center's Vision for Social JusticeMay Day in 1930 America was a dismal affair. In the first months of the year, the United States, like much of the rest of the world, was sinking into a deep economic dep