Introduction to Emma Goldman's Living my life - Miriam Brody Introduction to the Penguin Classics edition (2006) of Emma Goldman's Living my life, ed. Miriam…
The 1937 and 1938 San Francisco retail strikes - Michael B Reagan A history of the Department Store Employees Union Local 1100 and the 1937 and 1938 San Francisco…
My first years in Philadelphia - Joseph Cohen A chapter from the autobiographical memoirs of Joseph Cohen, a Philadelphia-based Jewish anarchist at the turn of the 19th/20th centuries…
Forty years in the struggle: memoirs of a Jewish anarchist - Chaim Leib Weinberg Autobiographical memoir of Philadelphia-based Jewish anarchist, Chaim Leib Weinberg, translated by…
Atlanta's washerwomen strike, 1881 A short history of the strike of overwhelmingly African-American women laundresses in Atlanta Georgia. Coming only shortly after the abolition of…
The Bronx slave market, 1950 - Marvel Cooke Fascinating series of reports and first person accounts of the markets in New York City where unemployed African-American women would be hired by…
Sit-down strikes by women in 1937 - Ivan Greenberg A short account of women workers' participation in the sit down strike wave which swept the US in 1937.
1937 cigar industry strike A history of the sit down strikes by predominantly Polish women workers in Detroit during the great depression: part of a national wave of sit…
Immigrant women beat cigar company bosses - Martha Grevatt A short history of the wave of sitdown strikes by predominantly Polish women cigar makers in Detroit…
The Detroit Woolworth's sitdown strike, 1937 - Marc Norton A short history of the sit-in strike of women workers at Woolworth's in Detroit, which shook the…
"Is your washroom breeding bolsheviks?" poster An attempt at recreating the popular "Is your washroom breeding bolsheviks?" advertisement poster. A full sized version is attached.
More than a seat on the bus - Danielle McGuire Excellent account of the Montgomery bus boycott, a key moment in the civil rights movement. In particular it demolishes the popular myth…