On May 6, Bob Korstad joined civil rights activists, 2 former presidents of the Organization of American Historians and other concerned citizens to protest the North Carolina legislature moves including denial of and restrictions on health care access, curtailing of uenmployment benefits; restrictions on the right to vote; tax reductions for the rich. See Korstad’s powerful statement here:
Rosemary Feurer is Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. She is the author of Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950, among others. She is working on The Illinois Mine Wars, 1860-1940 and a new biography of Mary Harris “Mother” Jones.
