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Josephine Bennett, Hartford's "City Mother"

The Sand Hogs-- Black Workers on strike in 1904

Colonel Colt's Plantation

Women of the Prison Brigade

Solidarity and Seventy-five Cents

Sam Clemens, Union Man

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"An Irishman can only be a traitor to Ireland"

Rising Tide: Steamboat Workers on the Connecticut River

One Big Union

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The Factory Girls

AKA Jim Pembroke

Black Baseball in Hartford

"We Refuse to Starve Quietly"

Red Emma

"Our Struggle for Living Wages and Better Conditions"

Paul Robeson: Standing Up and Fighting Back

Bound for Glory: Woody Guthrie Sings to Hartford

Obituary for Mechanic Street

John Brown and the "Negro in the Dark"

Malcolm X in Hartford

The Labor Holiday

Octopus of the Wires

The Red Menace

Peace Work with a Union Label

Union Brew

The Shoemaker and the Fish Peddler

No Room at the Inn: Race Discrimination in Hartford