Michael Honey
Labor History

Sacco & Vanzetti at 100; What happened to MLK’s dream?: A Podcast

Michele Fazio on “The Crime of the Century: Remembering Sacco and Vanzetti 100 Years Later”; Michael Honey, on “What Happened to Martin Luther

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LAWCHA OpEd

MLK: To the Promised Land

Michael K. Honey is the author of the new study, To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice,

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OpEd

MLK’s ’68 struggle for economic justice still marching on

On Feb. 1, 1968, Echol Cole and Robert Walker were crushed to death while riding out a cold, driving rainstorm in the back

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Film & Video LAWCHA

“Love and Solidarity: Rev. James Lawson and Nonviolence in the Search for Workers’ Rights,” a film by Michael Honey

Historians look for details to make history come alive, and oral history can provide them. Over thirty years of research, my scores of

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Labor History

Welcome to the New Depression: A Video by Darryl Holter

Forwarded from Darrly Holter’s official newsletter. An original taste of Americana music, drawing from country, blues and folk traditions. Darryl Holter is also

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Labor History

Love and Solidarity: Rev. James Lawson and Nonviolence in the Search for Workers’ Rights

This August Bullfrog Films launches, Love and Solidarity: Rev. James Lawson and Nonviolence in the Search for Workers’ Rights, a 38-minute film introduction

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LAWCHA

Be Consolated, John Handcox

John L Handcox was an African American born in Brinkley, Arkansas, in 1904 at one of the worst times and in one of

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