LAWCHA Member Paul Ortiz on Emancipation Day in Florida
LAWCHA Member Paul Ortiz wrote a stunning article on the nearly uncelebrated Emancipation Day, May 20, in Florida. He writes, “Today, May 20,
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LAWCHA Member Cindy Hahamovitch Wins 2012 Taft Prize
Based on extensive research in archival collections and oral history interviews across national and imperial borders, Cindy Hahamovitch offers an incisive and expansive
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Southern Labor Studies Association: Many Souths
The SLSA invites a broad range of panels on southern working-class history, while at the same time it asks participants to examine how
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Gutman Prize Winner, Marjorie Elizabeth Wood, Writes for New York Times
Marjorie Elizabeth Wood, LAWCHA’s 2012 Gutman Prize Winner, recently wrote an OpEd piece for the New York Times! The piece draws much from
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Reed Fink Award Deadline May 15
One or more fellowship(s) of $250-$500 are awarded annually to individual(s) whose research in the Southern Labor Archives will lead to a book,
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Bread and Roses Centennial Symposium Report, by Janet Weaver
On the hundredth anniversary of the Bread and Roses textile strike, over 300 labor activists, researchers and community members gathered on April 28
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Reflections on the Bread and Roses Academic Symposium, April 28, 2012
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Immigrant Rights in Alabama
Yesterday, Alabama lawmakers refused to repeal the disastrous HB 56 despite the million dollars this failed experiment continues to cost the state every
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Labor Research and Action Network (LRAN) Conference, June 11-12
LRAN is aimed to create a space for the generation and exchange of fresh ideas and thinking among labor leaders, activists, scholars and