by Justin | Jul 16, 2020 | Education, Erik Loomis, Labor History
Follow Erik Loomis on Twitter This Day in Labor History: July 16, 1931. A white mob murdered the black sharecropper organizer Ralph Gray in Tallapoosa County, Alabama. Let’s talk about Black radical rural organizing and the sickening white violence that...
by Justin | Jul 15, 2020 | Education, Erik Loomis, Labor History
Follow Erik Loomis on Twitter This Day in Labor History: July 15. 1959. The Steel Strike of 1959 begins. Let’s talk about the fight to preserve the good lives for workers unions had won since World War II. Perhaps the most underrated event in American...
