This is the grave of Phineas Banning. Born in 1830 in Wilmington, Delaware, Banning seems to have grown up on the cusp of the middle class in a growing America. He came from a huge family, was one of 13 kids. By about 1846, he...
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This is the grave of Tom Bradley. Born in 1917 in Calvert, Texas, Bradley grew up super poor. His family were sharecroppers, still working the cotton. They moved like a.
It's not really coincidental that so much of the actual violence over the so-called culture wars has taken place in the very liberal cities of the West Coast. As I.
On April 24, 1903, Mexican rail workers on the Pacific Electric Railway in Los Angeles walked off the job over low wages and the unwillingness of the rail baron Henry Huntington to take their concerns seriously. This was a major moment in the history of...
This is also good: The union representing 30,000 education workers reached a tentative deal with the Los Angeles Unified School District on Friday, following a three-day strike that had closed.
Another major school workers strike has begun in Los Angeles. And it isn't just a teachers strike. Classes were canceled for more than 420,000 students on Tuesday as school employees.
More anti-Mexican violence for LGM's core of racist commenters who think that the U.S. conquest of northern Mexico was a-ok. White soldiers looking for Mexicans to beat, Zoot Suit Riots, Los Angeles, June 1943
Before too much time passes, we need to note the passing of the great leftist writer Mike Davis, who has influenced so many of us. He was best known for.
On October 12, 1933, Mexican workers went on strike in the Los Angeles garment industry. This was a foundational moment in Mexican American labor history, one that presaged their growing.
This has to be the greatest advance in strikes since the sit-down. Memo to teachers preparing to join the picket lines on Thursday: There will be tacos. Some 34,000 L.A. public school teachers are scheduled to strike January 14, unless a last-minute deal is made...
It's clear now that the real labor story of the 2010s is the rise of teachers' unions taking direct action to fight for themselves, the children they teach, and the.
It's a little hard to fathom today, but for many decades, Los Angeles was an unbelievably conservative city. Of course it was the home of Nixon and Reagan. In 1910,.