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THIS WEEK IN PEOPLE’S HISTORY, FEB 27-MAR 4  
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_ A Big Loss for Labor (in 1939), Legal Lynching is Still Lynching
(1919), Women Hold Up Half the Sky (1864), Nuclear Test Disaster
(1954), Disability Inclusion's Ancient Roots (1829), This is Freedom
of the Press? (1919), Science, What Is It Good For? _

Some of the winners of the 1937 UAW sit-down strike in Flint,
Michigan,

 

_A BIG LOSS FOR LABOR_

85 YEARS AGO, on February 27, 1939, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that
sit-down strikes were illegal and that sit-down strikers could be
fired. Up until then, sit-down strikes had been one of organized
workers' most effective tactics to prevent employers from using
strikebreakers to continue production with plants and equipment that
were involved in a labor dispute. Before the Supreme Court ruling,
sit-down strikes had been successful for the unions that used them at
Hormel Packing in Minnesota in 1933, at five different rubber
companies in 1936 in Akron, Ohio, and in 1937, when the United Auto
Workers occupied several General Motors plants for more than forty
days, and repelled the efforts of the police and National Guard to
retake them.
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_LEGAL OR NOT, LYNCHING IS LYNCHING_

105 YEARS AGO, on February 28, 1919, John Snowden, a 26-year-old Black
man who had been convicted of murder despite his innocence, was hanged
in Annapolis, Maryland. On the day before his execution, Snowden
wrote, " In a few hours from now I shall step out of time into
eternity to pay the penalty of a crime I am not guilty of. God knows
that I am telling the truth, and after I have been hanged, I am asking
the authorities to please continue to search for the murderer. . . .
 I have offered up a prayer for you all. I want to thank everybody
that has spent their time and money to help me. Through their song and
prayer my soul was made alive and I am leaving on the everlasting Arm
of Jesus. I could not leave this world with a lie in my mouth." In
1998 the John Snowden Memorial Committee was formed to lobby for
Snowden's pardon, which was granted on May 31, 2001, by Maryland
Governor Parris Glendening. For much more information, see
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_WOMEN HOLD UP HALF THE SKY_

160 YEARS AGO, on February 29, 1864, the three hundred members of the
Troy, New York, Collar Laundry Union won their 6-day strike for a
25-percent wage increase. The strike, against 14 different commercial
laundries, is memorable not only because of its success, but because
it was conducted by a union with an all-female membership with a woman
leader, Kate Mullany.
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_NUCLEAR TEST DISASTER_

70 YEARS AGO, on March 1, 1954, the U.S. exploded a 15 megaton
hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.  It was the
largest nuclear device ever tested by the U.S. and it produced more
deadly radioactive fallout than any other single explosion, causing
radiation sickness among at least 1300 people. International
condemnation of the test gave the movement to end atmospheric testing
a major boost.
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_DISABILITY INCLUSION'S ANCIENT ROOTS_

195 YEARS AGO, on March 2, 1829, the first school in the U.S. for
people with total or partial visual impairment was established in
Boston, Massachusetts. Named New England Asylum for the Blind, it was
later renamed Perkins School for the Blind and moved to a 38-acre
campus in nearby Watertown, where it continues to educate the visually
impaired and teachers of the visually impaired.
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_THIS IS FREEDOM OF THE PRESS?_

105 YEARS AGO, on March 3, 1919, the U.S. Supreme Court made one of
its more shameful decisions -- Schenck v. the U.S. -- which it
ratified the constitutionality of the Espionage Act's ban on the
creation and distribution of words on paper that opposed and denounced
U.S. participation in World War 1. It was a straightforward question
about the meaning of the First Amendment's text: "Congress shall make
no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press . . . "
As the Supreme Court was forced to acknowledge, the accused had done
nothing more that publish a leaflet that sharply criticized U.S.
involvement in World War 1 and the government's policy of drafting men
to fight in the war, but the court found that the government's
interest in pursuing the war took trumped the First Amendment's
prohibition on abridging freedom of the press.
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_SCIENCE, WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?_

55 YEARS AGO, on March 4, 1969, thousands of scientists throughout the
U.S., most of whom were working at colleges and universities, halted
research and cancelled many classes to gather with students and others
to discuss the uses and misuses of science, particularly research
related to military applications. At the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, where the day's events were initiated, most classes did
not meet. Large events were also held at Columbia University, Cornell,
the University of Wisconsin, the Universities of California at
Berkeley, San Francisco and Irvine, Stanford and the University of
Washington. The event's organization resulted in the foundation, later
that year, of the Union of Concerned Scientists.
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