1919

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  11/29/19
  

  The Forgotten Origins of Paid Family Leave

  by Mona L. Siegel

  In 1919, activists from around the world pressed governments to adopt policies to help working mothers.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  10/28/19
  

  Zombie flu: How the 1919 influenza pandemic fueled the rise of the living dead

  by Elizabeth Outka

   The rise of the living dead, though, has a surprising link to another recurring October visitor: the influenza virus.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  9/30/19
  

  ‘Nineteen Nineteen’ Review: A Year Seen Through the Lens of Its Artifacts

  The Huntington hosts an exhibition as surprising, intriguing and, well, frenetic as the year 1919.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  8/31/19
  

  Recovering the Memory of a Black Church Destroyed During the ‘Red Summer’

  Beyond the lynchings, 1919 became notable for another tactic that white mobs used to strike at the heart of African-American communities: attacking black churches just as they were emerging as the center of black life in America.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  8/18/19
  

  A rural town confronts its buried history of mass killings of black Americans

  100 years after hundreds of African Americans were reportedly killed in Elaine, Arkansas, a memorial is set to bring details of the tragedy to light.

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• 8/4/19
  

  Remembering The Red Summer 100 Years Later

  by David Krugler

  How should the challenging but essential task of remembering and commemorating this troubling history be confronted? 

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  7/23/19
  

  Hundreds of black Americans were killed during 'Red Summer.' A century later, still ignored

  It was branded "Red Summer" because of the bloodshed and amounted to some of the worst white-on-black violence in U.S. history.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  4/16/19
  

  Immigration, Race, and Women’s Rights, 1919 and Today

  by Arnold R. Isaacs

  The comparison couldn’t, in many ways, be grimmer or more telling. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  3/28/19
  

  What if Churchill Had Been Prime Minister in 1919?

  by Andrew Roberts

  More than most, he understood the grave challenges facing the West at the end of World War I.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  2/6/19
  

  Why the Seattle General Strike of 1919 should inspire a new generation of labor activists

  by Steven C. Beda

  Remembering the 1919 Seattle General Strike on its 100th anniversary.