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E73: Ben Fletcher, part 1

Working Class History

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The Role of Local 8 in the IWW

The Wobbly is Local 8 immediately says, we are going to integrate our gangs. This would of course be 50 years before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended legal segregation based on race in the United States. Many unions also were dragging their feet on racial equality, both in the 19 teens and for decades after.

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