February 20, 1895
– Frederick Douglass died on this date. In an 1857 address Douglass
said, "If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess
to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops
without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and
lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many
waters. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it
never will." (From the Daily Bleed)
February 20, 1947 – 15 people were killed and 100 were injured as an explosion leveled a Los Angeles, California, electroplating plant where a chemical mixing error occurred. (From the Daily Bleed)
February 20, 1917
- Thousands of women marched to City Hall in New York to demand relief
from high wartime food prices. Inflation had wiped out wage gains made
by workers prior to the war, leading to a high level of working class
protest . (From Workday Minnesota)
February 20, 1947 – 15 people were killed and 100 were injured as an explosion leveled a Los Angeles, California, electroplating plant where a chemical mixing error occurred. (From the Daily Bleed)
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