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Today in Labor History May 26, 1857: Dred Scott was freed from slavery. Scott is most well-known because of the infamous Dred Scott Supreme Court decision. He had sued for his family’s freedom, arguing that they had lived four years in the north, where slavery was illegal. The Court ruled 7-2 that people of African descent weren’t U.S. citizens and thus had no standing before the court. Scott’s lawsuit was funded by the children of Peter Blow, who had turned against slavery in the years since their father had sold the Scotts to John Emerson. After the ruling, Emerson’s wife and her new husband, who was an abolitionist, deeded the Scotts back to the Blow children. They manumitted the Scotts on May 26, 1857. However, Dred Scott died from tuberculosis fourteen months later.

Scott c. 1857. By Uncredited - http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/612#, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24909488
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Today in Labor History May 19, 2018: William Burrus, president of the 360,000-member American Postal Workers Union from 2001-2010, died at age 81. He was the first African-American to be elected president of a national union by direct member voting. Burrus was born in West Virginia. After serving in the U.S. Army, he moved to Cleveland, where he worked sorting mail and joined the union. He helped the local coordination of the national postal strike of 1970. As a result of that strike, postal workers won collective bargaining rights. He served as president of the Cleveland Local of the APWU from 1974 to 1980. He became president of the national union in 2001.

Burrus in a suit, with yellow tie, against a yellow background, with graying, very trim beard, looking straight ahead (eye contact).
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Today in Labor History May 13, 1968: The Poor People’s Campaign raised Resurrection City, in Washington, D.C. The tent shanty town, part of the campaign to gain economic justice for poor people, existed for six weeks. The Poor People’s Campaign was originally organized by Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). However, Ralph Abernathy took over leadership after King’s assassination. It developed from the realization that civil rights gains had not improved material conditions for African Americans. However, the Poor People’s Campaign was a multiracial movement that included white, Asian Hispanic and Indigenous Americans. Some of the Campaign’s leaders included Chicano leaders Corky Gonzales and Reies Tijerina. Other participants included Appalachian miners. The FBI and military intelligence spied on the camp and wiretapped the campaign. Some of the spies posed as journalists, or as black militants.

A row of tents set up in the shantytown known as Resurrection City. By &lt;a rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://www.flickr.com/people/7891030@N08&quot;&gt;Henry Zbyszynski&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Flickr&quot; class=&quot;mw-redirect&quot; title=&quot;Flickr&quot;&gt;Flickr&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; class=&quot;external text&quot; href=&quot;https://www.flickr.com/photos/7891030@N08/7136139975&quot;&gt;Resurrection City Washington D.C. 1968&lt;/a&gt;, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0" title="Creative Commons Attribution 2.0">CC BY 2.0</a>, <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=20715572">Link</a>
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The #Trump admin fired the #librarian of #Congress, Dr. Carla D. Hayden, on Thurs, drawing swift outcry from #Democrats. Hayden was the 1st #AfricanAmerican & 1st #woman to serve as the head of the institution.

Hayden, appointed as the 14th librarian of Congress by Pres Barack #Obama in 2016, had overseen the library through Trump’s first term. The #LibraryOfCongress, the oldest govt-run cultural institution in the #UnitedStates, only rarely gets a new leader. Hayden was its 1st since 1987.

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From Wikipedia...

"Jones was born in Covington, Kentucky, on May 17, 1893, to an Irish father and African-American mother.[7][8] Little is known about his mother who left his life when Jones was a child.[9] His father, John Jones, was a railroad worker who struggled to raise him on his own.[9][10] Jones was raised by a Catholic priest, Father Ryan, at a rectory in Cincinnati, Ohio, near Covington.[11][12] Father Ryan took in Jones around the age of seven, and two years later, John Jones died.[2][7][13] Jones left school at age 11 after the sixth grade.[12] He went to nearby Cincinnati, Ohio, working odd jobs including a role as a garage cleaning boy. By age 14, Jones was working as an automobile mechanic and was later named garage foreman.[2][9] Jones was largely self taught.[14]"

We was a licensed engineer by age 20.

Then he fought in WWI and became a Sargent.

Wow!

Photo of Frederick McKinley Jones
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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History April 27, 1882: Jessie Redmon Fauset was born. She was an African-American editor, poet, essayist, novelist, and educator. Her emphasis on portraying an accurate image of African-American life and history inspired literature of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s. In her fiction, she created black characters who were working professionals. This was inconceivable to white Americans at the time. Her stories dealt with themes like racial discrimination, "passing", and feminism. From 1919 to 1926, she was literary editor of The Crisis, a NAACP magazine.

#laborhistory #WorkingClass #naacp #africanamerican #feminism #racism #literary #novel #poetry #writer #author #poet #fiction #discrimination #HarlemRenaissance #BlackMastadon @bookstadon

Fauset, seated, wearing a dress and a pearl necklace, looking directly at the camera.
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