Flynn Biography
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Education & Resources – National Women’s History Museum – NWHM
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Women and Marxism: Marxists Internet Archive
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Communists in Harlem
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Notes on the 1946 General Strike
When people found out that we were making work about Oakland, we were asked one question time and again: “What do you know about the general strike?” The answer was, not much. We’d never heard of it before moving to...
1946: The Oakland general strike – Stan Weir
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1946 Oakland General Strike – Oakland – LocalWiki
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The 1946 Oakland General Strike
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