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IWW Publication Cover

Date: 1946
Description: "The General Strike for Industrial Freedom," the cover of a publication issued by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). This publication, which was fo...
Photograph

Anne and Carl Braden in Newsroom

Date: 09 1948
Description: Newsroom of the Louisville Times, where Anne (typing, at the right), and Carl Braden (left), worked as journalists.
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Anne Braden

Date: 10 1962
Description: Anne Braden in the SCEF (Southern Conference Education Fund) office where she edited the organization's newsletter, The Southern Patriot.
Photograph

UFCW Strike

Date: 
Description: Strike of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) Local 227 against a Winn-Dixie grocery store. Identified among the picketers are Rev. Charles...
Photograph

UFCW Strike

Date: 10 1981
Description: Striking members of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 253.
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Garment Workers Strike

Date: 1972
Description: Members of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) on strike against the Kellwood Company.
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Stearns Company Strike

Date: 1975
Description: Informational meeting for the employees of the Stearns Coal and Lumber Co. at about the time the company was sold. During the 1920s and 1930s the company w...
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James Forman

Date: 06 1962
Description: James Forman in a SNCC (Student NonViolent Coordinating Committee) office.
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Steelworkers Strike

Date: 1980
Description: Distribution of picket signs to striking members of the United Steelworkers of America Local 8888. The local was on strike against Tenneco.
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Willie Rudd

Date: 1991
Description: Willie Rudd, president of the United Furniture Workers Local 282 as well as the national union, at a SOC (Southern Organizing Committee) labor conference i...
Photograph

Chinese Sporting Goods Factory

Date: 
Description: Propaganda photograph received from China Features in Peking by the Southern Patriot newspaper published in Louisville, Kentucky. The photograph illustrat...
Poster

Labor History Week

Date: 1960
Description: Poster with black ink on white background for Labor History Week with an illustration at the bottom of a man standing near a sign that reads: "On Strike." ...

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