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Omaha Steve

(103,477 posts) Wed Mar 2, 2016, 08:02 PM Mar 2016

2-28-16 The Price of Demanding Equal Pay in 2:00

http://laborhistoryin2.podbean.com/e/february-28-2016-the-price-of-demanding-equal-pay/

February 28, 2016
On this day in Labor History the year was 1942. That was the day that Sue Cowan Williams filed a lawsuit for equal pay for black school teachers in Little Rock, Arkansas. Eighty-six black teachers worked in the city’s segregated school system. They were all members of the Little Rock Class Room Teachers Association.

2:00 minute audio at link.

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