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Where’s our Forty Acres And A Mule?
On this week’s Labor History Today: Historian and former UAW organizer Rudi Batzell joins America’s Workforce Union Podcast to explain how the failure of land reform after slavery — and employers’ use of racial division and strikebreaking — shaped the early U.S. labor movement. From “40 acres and a mule” to the CIO, Batzell shows how race and class remain inseparable in American labor history.
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When the City Stopped: Stories from New York’s Essential Workers
On the Labor Heritage Power Hour, historian Robert W. Snyder shares When the City Stopped, powerful frontline stories from NYC’s essential workers during the darkest days of COVID.
Then historian Peter Cole brings the life of Black Wobbly Ben Fletcher to the mic — the visionary IWW leader who built an interracial, militant waterfront union decades before the Civil Rights Act.CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

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