A daily, pocket-sized history of America's working people, brought to you by The Rick Smith Show team.
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May 1, 2015
May 1, 2015
1 min
On this day in Labor History the year was 1968. That was the day the administration shut down the Paris University at Naterre. Student protests at the school had begun weeks before around the ideas of a sexual revolution, or the right of young people to sleep together if they chose to without adult interference or moralizing.
May 1, 2015
May 1, 2015
1 min
On this day in Labor History the year was 1886. This was the day that began events in Chicago that would make May First the most important day on the calendar for the labor movement across the world.