Flynn Biography

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Education & Resources – National Women’s History Museum – NWHM

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Women and Marxism: Marxists Internet Archive

Women and Marxism: Marxists Internet Archive This subject section has been created to provide broad documentation both on women’s issues and Marxism, and also a space for women’s writings that are significant, but transcriptions not currently volumous or organized enough...

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Communists in Harlem

Communists in Harlem Organizing against racism during the Great Depression Communists in Harlem February 24, 2006 WITH THE republication of Mark Naison’s book Communists in Harlem During the Depression (University of Illinois Press, 2005), a new generation of socialists will...

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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...

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Oakland General Strike 1946

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1946: The Oakland general strike – Stan Weir

1946: The Oakland general strike – Stan Weir An account by Stan Weir of the gen strike in Oakland, California, in 1946. The Oakland (California) General Strike was an extension of the national strike wave. It was not a ‘called’...

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1946 Oakland General Strike – Oakland – LocalWiki

1946 Oakland General Strike – Oakland – LocalWiki In 1946, the largest general strike in U.S. history took place in Oakland. The strike effectively shut the city down for nearly three days (1946) Protestors surround a mail truck at the...

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The last Oakland general strike

The last Oakland general strike

March 27, 2017

The 1946 Oakland General Strike

The 1946 Oakland General Strike The 1946 Oakland general strike began with a dispute at two downtown department stores, Hastings’ and Kahn’s, where 425 clerks (mostly women) were on strike for union recognition.

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