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They Even Danced Together · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  And they ate together, which was against the law in Tennessee-
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  Mm-hmm … and the rest of the South They even danced together.
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  They danced.
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  They swam in the pond together.
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  All of this, illegal,
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  This is the Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Friday, September 18th.
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  in the Jim Crow South, Black women were still denied the vote, as were Black
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  men since 1870 and the 15th Amendment.
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  That's from the Heartland Labor Forum on the Labor Radio Podcast
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  network, laborradionetwork.org.
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  There's a lot happening on this weekend's Labor Arts calendar.
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  Labor film screenings tonight in Winsted, Connecticut, and Rochester, New York, and
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  another one Sunday in Greenbelt, Maryland.
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  And there's a labor book launch Saturday in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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  Details and the latest labor arts news and events are available at laborheritage.org,
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  In today's labor history, on this date in 1999, a twenty-month
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  lockout of twenty-nine hundred Kaiser Aluminum workers ended with
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  a new contract, the dismissal of scabs, and millions in back pay.
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  Today's labor quote is by Martin Luther King Jr. " The labor movement
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  did not diminish the strength of the nation, but enlarged it.
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  Those who attack labor forget these simple truths, but history remembers them."
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  Support for the Labor Radio Podcast Daily comes from Union
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  Plus, a nonprofit organization founded by the AFL-CIO in 1986.
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  More information at unionplus.org.
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  This has been Chris Garlock for the Labor Radio Podcast network.
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  Have a great weekend