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The Philadelphia transit strike of 1944

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Excerpt from the June 1972 edition of the Journal of American History on a violent transit strike by black workers in 1944.
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University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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Keywords

  1. African American Labor Union Members
  2. African Americans
  3. Labor Disputes
  4. Strikes And Lockouts

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