John Brown, Lewis Hine & Labor’s Magna Carta

On this week's Labor History Today: Heroic martyr and visionary or madman and terrorist? Leon Fink on abolitionist John Brown. Art historian Alexander Nemerov on why Lewis Hine’s powerful photographs of young children at work still speak to us today. Plus fascinating finds illuminating "Labor’s Magna Carta" in the Meany Labor Archives and four different versions of "John Brown's Body."

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This week's music:
Sonny Stitt - John Brown's Body
John Browns Body-Paul Robeson
Van Morrison - John Brown's Body
Woody Herman Big Band-John Brown's Other Body