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May Day: Hidden & Essential Labor
May 01 2021
May Day and International Workers’ Day commemorate the 1886 Chicago Haymarket affair and the fight for representation and rights for laborers worldwide — as well as the continuing efforts and struggle of the labor movement. This May Day, UC Press is highlighting titles that shed light on labor that
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