Marvel Cooke
The Bronx slave market, 1950 - Marvel Cooke
Submitted by Steven. on Dec 9 2015 09:53
Fascinating series of reports and first person accounts of the markets in New York City where unemployed African-American women would be hired by white housewives to perform domestic tasks at extremely low wages.
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A short history of the riots against new education laws that turned into a mass collective rejection of apartheid South Africa by thousands of working class black youths.
What we are not being told about French pensions
Text from CNT-AIT France debunking common myths about the government's proposed reforms to pensions.
1945: US responses to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Selected quotations from US officials about the dropping of nuclear weapons on Japan which demonstrate that the bombing was not to end the war, but was to issue a warning to its Cold War rival...
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