Gender in Movement(s): Women and Gender in Motion
The theme of the 2020 meeting International Federation for Research in Women’s History/Fédération Internationale pour la Recherche en Histoire des Femmes is “Gender.
Events
LAWCHA at the OAH
LAWCHA will be present at the 2018 OAH in Sacramento, California. We have a full schedule of panels and events associated with the.
- by Ryan Poe
- April 4, 2018
LAWCHA
Know Your Place: A New Generation of Working-Class Voices
A literary festival isn’t the obvious place to discuss class, but a couple of weeks ago I found myself introducing a session at.
- by Tim Strangleman
- March 29, 2018
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,.
- by Michael Honey
- March 20, 2018
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.
- by Michael Honey
- March 20, 2018
LAWCHA
A Tale of Two Futures: The Fate of the Dollar General Economy
Dollar General is everywhere. The most visible manifestation, of course, is the proliferation of their concrete block stores littering the landscape. But it’s.
- by Daniel Graff
- March 19, 2018
LAWCHA
Billy Graham and the Evangelical Origins of Organized Labor
When I heard over breakfast that Billy Graham had died, the news ricocheted around my mind and stirred up lots of memories. The.
- by Ken Estey
- March 13, 2018
LAWCHA
How Might We Teach the History of Labor Journalism?
“The Labor Beat,” the new issue of Labor: Studies in Working-Class History guest-edited by Max Fraser and me, focuses on labor journalism’s past.
- by Christopher Phelps
- March 13, 2018
Film & Video
LAWCHA
Heather Booth – Changing the World: New Film Available on Women’s and Civil Rights Activist
Do you have activist students who have questions about how best to build a life around making social change? Do you want to.
- by Lane Windham
- March 12, 2018
LAWCHA
People
Labor and the Long Seventies
In the tumultuous 1970s, women and people of color streamed into unions, strikes swept the country — and employers launched a fierce counter-attack..
- by Chris Brooks
- March 5, 2018