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Workers Are Joining Labor Unions Like It’s 1919

Workers Are Joining Labor Unions Like It’s 1919

The South’s trend toward unionization is the latest chapter in a story of racism and antisemitism that began more than a century ago

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Elaine Massacre of 1919 defendants Ed Hicks, Frank Hicks, Frank Moore, J. C. Knox, Ed Coleman, Paul Hall, and Scipio A. Jones, the group’s legal counsel (far left). Source: Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, Central Arkansas Library System | Zinn Education Project

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