Five stunning paintings depicting labor organizing, pickets and the violence directed at workers in the turbulent 1930s were almost lost to history. The story of Philip Tipperman and how a small group of people saved those paintings.
On this week’s Labor History in Two: Massacre At Bogalusa.
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Picketed, Beaten, by Philip Tipperman, 1939