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Labor History Today

The lost labor artist

Nov 24, 2024
32:17

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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Labor History Today is produced by the Labor Heritage Foundation and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor.

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Picketed, Beaten, by Philip Tipperman, 1939

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