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Word of the Atlanta Student Movement began to travel fast and Lonnie King, Julian Bond, and others were summoned to appear before a special meeting of Atlanta University Center's Council of Presidents. The presidents spoke in turn, expressing their opinions of the proposed sit-in movement. Dr. Clement, president of Atlanta University spoke first.
The Atlanta sit-ins were a series of sit-ins that took place in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Occurring during the sit-in movement of the larger civil rights movement , the sit-ins were organized by the Committee on Appeal for Human Rights , which consisted of students from the Atlanta University Center .
Number of workers on strike by year Strikes 1881 [3] 130,176 1881 Atlanta washerwomen strike; 1882 158,802 1883 170,275 Camp Dump strike; 1884 165,175 1885 258,129 1886 610,024 Great Southwest railroad strike of 1886; Bay View massacre; Haymarket affair; 1887 439,306 Thibodaux massacre (Sugar cane workers' strike) 1888 162,880 1889 260,290 1890 ...
1914–1915 Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills strike. [30] 1915 Emory College relocated to Atlanta. November: film The Birth of a Nation premieres. Ku Klux Klan refounded in Atlanta. [27] [31] 1916 Streetcar strike. [32] Utopian Literary Club [26] and Atlanta Junior League [19] founded. 1917 - Great Atlanta fire. 1918 - 1918 influenza epidemic. [33]
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The United Federation of Teachers (UFT) is the labor union that represents most teachers in New York City public schools. As of 2005, there were about 118,000 in-service teachers and nearly 30,000 [2] paraprofessional educators in the union, as well as about 54,000 retired members. In October 2007, 28,280 home day care providers voted to join ...
Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis held a packed union meeting at their Beverly Hills home. Desi Arnaz poured his heart out in an open letter to the industry while Lew Wasserman worked the numbers ...
Workers for the Scripto company in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, held a labor strike from November 27, 1964, to January 9, 1965. It ended when the company and union agreed to a three-year contract that included wage increases and improved employee benefits.