The textile workers strike of 1934, a year after the start of the "New Deal", was the largest strike in the labor history of the US at the time, involving 400, 000 textile workers from New England, the Mid-Atlantic states and the Southern states, and...
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The Paris Commune was a socialist and anti-religious administration which assumed responsibility for the city following the collapse of the Second French Republic in 1871. It lasted a mere two months before being retaken by the regular French Army in...
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‘I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that?’ This is what Sojourner Truth asked the audience at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in 1851 during her speech, ‘Ain’t I a woman?’. This...
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Dolores Ibárruri Gómez, known as 'La Pasionaria' ('the Passionflower'), was a Spanish Republican heroine and a communist politician of Basque origin, remembered particularly for her famous slogan ¡No Pasarán! ('They shall not pass') from a speech...
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‘What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.’ How does a slave born on a plantation in deeply racist 19th century America go on to be nominated for vice-president of the United States? Just ask Frederick...
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Louis David Riel was a Canadian politician, a founder of the province of Manitoba, and a political leader of the Métis people of the Canadian Prairies. He led two rebellions against the government of Canada and its first post-Confederation prime...
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VOTES FOR WOMEN! This radical tea towel is based on a 1911 vintage design by Margaret Morris, intended to illustrate the song sheet of "The March of the Women, " a song dedicated to suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst. It became the music for the...
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Ida Bell Wells was born a slave in Mississippi. Her family was freed from slavery shortly after her birth by the Emancipation Proclamation. On a train ride from Memphis to Nashville in 1884, for which she had bought a first class ticket, Wells was...
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A writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer, Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in 1835 in Florida Missouri. He worked as a printer and a riverboat pilot before his first forays into the world of literature as a journalist and a short story...
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If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.’ On 5th March 1960, photojournalist Alberto Korda captured perhaps the most famous portrait photograph in history. He was at a speech given by the Cuban prime...
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John Jay (1745-1829) was the first Chief Justice of the United States, and one of the 'Founding Fathers'. Jay was a contributor to the 'Federalist Papers' which sought to ratify the US Constitution, was a proponent of a strong federalist government and...
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‘In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.’ The quote on this tea towel comes from The Grapes of Wrath, a novel written by John Steinbeck. Steinbeck was a Nobel Prize-winning...
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