In our first segment, Woody Guthrie Center Director Cady Shaw on the story behind Woody Guthrie’s song "1913 Massacre". Check out the video here.
Then, Central Oregonizing, Radical Songbook podcast host Michael Funke’s brief history of unions at sawmills in Bend, Oregon from 1916 to 2000. Check out the video here.
On this week’s Labor History in Two: The year was 1951; that was the day New York City was struck by the Great Bagel Famine.
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Bitter Kisses for Labor
Tom Breiding’s songs of struggle
The 1922-23 Windber Coal Strike
Erasing Virginia’s labor history
The Strange Career of “the Working Class”
Fred Redmond: “Why Labor History Is Important”
The Tractor Princess
Buffalo Soldier turned revolutionary
Celebrating Black History Month (Encore)
Domestic worker, Mother of the Movement
Reconciling a Slaveholding Past (Encore)
A meatpacker’s American dream
Bill Lucy on MLK; Shubert Sebree on Debs
Strong Winds and Widow Makers
The Cambridge Movement
“No Labor Dictators for Us”
A Working-Class Christmas Story Christmas
Red Jerseys in Detroit
Julia Reichert: “Documentarian of the Working Class”
“Capital’s Terrorists”
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