A gallery of photos to explore.
Women Have Always Worked: Fighting for Equality: 1950–2018.
An exploration from an online edX course.
Women Have Always Worked: Fighting for Equality: 1950–2018.
An exploration from an online edX course.
Women Have Always Worked: Fighting for Equality: 1950–2018.
An exploration from an online edX course.
Women Have Always Worked: Fighting for Equality: 1950–2018.
An exploration from an online edX course.
The Barre Historical Society is the historical society for the City of Barre, Vermont. It is the owner of two historic buildings, the Socialist Labor Party Hall National Historic Landmark and the Union Cooperative Store bakery building, being restored as the Rise Up Bakery.
John L. Lewis was born February 12th 1880, to Welsh immigrant parents in the coal mining camp of Cleveland, Iowa- one mile East of Lucas, Iowa. He began working in the Big Hill Coal Mine in Lucas, IA as a teenager, joining the UMWA Local #799 in 1900. He began his rise to power in the United Mine Workers of America and served as President of the UMWA for forty years and was founder of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
This website includes the records of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and a collection of six oral histories from the National Education Association (NEA). Visit site
This collection of life histories consists of approximately 2,900 documents, compiled and transcribed by more than 300 writers from 24 states, working on the Folklore Project of the Federal Writers’ Project, a New Deal jobs program that was part of the U.S. Works Progress (later…
