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Pecan Shellers’ Strike, labour dispute (January–March 1938) in which thousands of pecan shellers, most of whom were Latina women, walked off their jobs in San Antonio, Texas, protesting low pay and substandard working conditions. The strikers ultimately received a small pay increase.
In the 1930s and 1940s, photographers documented York and Adams counties.
Iowaâs âButter-Margarine Warâ: T. W. Schultzâs Fight for Academic Freedom Theodore W. Schultz, emeritus professor and former head of University of Chicago's Economics department, attends a press conference after winning the Sveriges riksbank's Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for 1979. University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center Rights and Reproductions. Copyright: Chicago Maroon, October 19, 1979, p. 1 David Seim is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. He directs a small history program within the schoolâs Social ...
Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. A man visits a town and thereâs something about it he falls in love with. He has an eye for architecture, yes, and an interest in history, but what unfolds is his intense interest in the people of this green valley. He wants to hear and tell their stories. In October, 1996, I was sitting in the little second floor office of the weekly Advocate on Spring Street in Williamstown, Mass. A man came in and said he was working on a project about nearby North Adams, my hometown. I was more than happy to talk to him on tape about growing up th...
