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Scene at Bossenden Woo d May 31, 1838 -- Kentish peasants clashed with armed British troops at Bosendon Wood. (From the Daily Blee...

May 1, International Workers Day!!!! Mother Jones (Library of Congress) May 1, 1830 - Mary Harris "Mother...

March 26, 1910 —Congress amended the Immigration Act of 1907 to specifically bar entrance of “paupers, anarchists, criminals and the dis...

December 31, 1890  - Ellis Island opened on this date in New York City, where millions of  immigrants to the United States first set f...

Last year there was  strike at Hershey Chocolate by 300 foreign students  living here on J-1 work-study visas. According to  Democracy No...

Huck/Konopacki Labor Cartoons While non-profits and student fundraising groups help build schools in poor communities in Africa and L...

August 10, 1893 -- San Francisco began deporting Chinese workers under the first Chinese Exclusion Act (passed May 6, 1882). (From th...

Parchman Farm Prison Labor, 1911 It should be obvious that increasing raids and deportations of immigrants is great for business a...

July 7, 1903 – The "March of the Mill Children" began, led by Mary Harris “Mother” Jones, from Philadelphia to Teddy Ro...

Scene at Bossenden Woo d May 31, 1838 -- Kentish peasants clashed with armed British troops at Bosendon Wood. (From the Daily Bleed...

May 1, International Workers Day!!!! Mother Jones (Library of Congress) May 1, 1830 - Mary Harris "Mother" Jones w...

March 26, 1910 —Congress amended the Immigration Act of 1907 to specifically bar entrance of “paupers, anarchists, criminals and the dise...