Joe Hill: Labor's best-known songwriter refused to be buried in the state of Utah -- Lowell, Massachusetts: America's very first union of working women -- The Atlanta Washerwoman's Strike: African American women with the power to call a general strike - in 1881 -- Pullman: former slaves were hired to staff Pullman Box Cars because they "knew how to be servile." So they formed a union -- Chicago: the Haymarket Massacre of 1886 and the Pullman Strike of 1894: Chicago was the center of both struggles, and things got white-hot -- Eugene Debs: the Carnegies and Rockefellers tried to silence Debs with jail time. That didn't stop him -- Colorado's mining frontier: Cripple Creek, 1894, and Ludlow, 1913: two very different battles, and both were shocking -- Triangle shirtwaist fire: one hundred twenty-three young women who went to work one day in a New York factory never came home. It changed our country forever -- Christmas Eve, 1913: fifty-nine children died on Christmas Eve, 1913, and it broke hearts around the world -- Christmas truce: these soldiers were thought to be enemies, but they played soccer and celebrated Christmas Eve, 1914, together -- The Battle of Blair Mountain: it ended when federal troops were called against thirteen thousand miners. It was "Civil War in the Hills" -- Tulsa, Oklahoma: ever heard of "Black Wall Street"? There's a reason you might not have -- Bonus army: The Great Depression left WWI vets with the short end of the stick. They weren't going to sit back and take it -- The Minneapolis General Strike of 1934: it began with truck drives who wanted a union. They became teamsters -- Sitting down, striking flint: these images might look like some lazy workers, up to no good. But they're actually heroes -- The Battle of the Overpass: a PR disaster for Ford Motor Company that kick-started UAW -- "Rosie the Riveter": remember the "Rosie the Riveter" image pretty much everybody knows? (Ahem) -- United Farmworkers: that time when 14 million Americans stopped eating grapes, because farmworkers asked them to -- The Stonewall Rebellion: a civil rights battle for the times -- Wildcat: in 1970, postal workers suddenly walked off the job. The Nation, the Union, and even President Nixon were caught by surprise -- Attica: what actually happened at Attica in 1971 is still largely kept hidden - but clues and facts are coming out even now -- The Watsonville, California, Cannery Strike: this is what solidarity looks like -- UPS: those packages won't move themselves: big brown versus the IBT -- The fight for $15: the long game, and why it's part of labor's future -- Woody Guthrie: why several verses of "This Land is Your Land" are usually left off when it's taught in school.
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