Antiwar and Radical History Project-Pacific Northwest

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Antiwar and Radical History Project–Pacific Northwest

History Sites, Local, Resources, University of Washington (UW)January 21, 2022

The Pacific Northwest Antiwar and Radical History Project is a multimedia web project that aims to chronicle the social impact of war and the rich history of antiwar activity in the Northwest. With video oral histories, hundreds of photographs and documents, GI underground newspapers, movement biographies, and research reports, the project illuminates this integral part of the Northwest’s social and political history. This site is one of a collection of Pacific Northwest Labor and Civil Rights Projects based at the University of Washington in Seattle, which involve undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and community members.

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This project assembles the most extensive online collection of materials about labor history for this, or any other, region. Here you will find detailed information and primary sources about key historical events, including the Seattle General Strike of 1919, the unemployed movements and labor crusades…

View: Women Have Always Worked, an edX Course Exploration, 11-20

Women Have Always Worked, an edX Course Exploration, 11-20

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Women Have Always Worked: Fighting for Equality: 1950–2018.
An exploration from an online edX course.

View: Child Labor in America, 1908-1912: Photographs by Lewis W. Hine

Child Labor in America, 1908-1912: Photographs by Lewis W. Hine

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As early as the 1830s, many U.S. states had enacted laws restricting or prohibiting the employment of young children in industrial settings. However, in rural communities where child labor on the farm was common, employment of children in mills and factories did not arouse much…

View: The Lowell Mills, The Mill Girls

The Lowell Mills, The Mill Girls

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In 1820 Lowell, known as East Chelmsford, MA at the time, had a population of 200 and was a farming community. Thirty years later, the population had grown to 33,000 and one could find 32 textile mills in existence there. Lowell was an ideal location for these mills because it was located near the Merrimac River. The river supplied the water necessary to run these factories.

View: The Strike That Couldn’t Happen, The Great Postal Strike of March 1970

The Strike That Couldn’t Happen, The Great Postal Strike of March 1970

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APWU remembers the Great Postal Strike of March 1970. For more background on the successful wildcat strike that earned postal workers the right to bargain collectively for better pay and benefits.

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