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Omaha Steve

(103,469 posts)
Mon Dec 14, 2015, 08:36 PM Dec 2015

12-11-15 The start of the Colored Farmers’ Alliance and Cooperative Union in 2:00


http://laborhistoryin2.podbean.com/e/december-11-the-start-of-the-colored-farmers%E2%80%99-alliance-and-cooperative-union/




December 11, 2015
On this day in labor history the year was 1886. That was the day that black farmers formed the Colored Farmers’ Alliance and Cooperative Union in Houston County, Texas. The Southern Farmers Alliance would not allow black members

2:00 minute audio at link.

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