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  2. Category:1960s strikes in the United States - Wikipedia

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    1960 Writers Guild of America strike; 1962–1963 New York City newspaper strike; 1964–1965 Scripto strike; 1966 New York City transit strike; 1968 New York City teachers' strike; 1969–1970 General Electric strike

  3. List of US strikes by size - Wikipedia

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    1938 New York City truckers strike: 1938 New York City & New Jersey: 30,000 [19] 1952 Packinghouse workers strike: 1952 30,000 Illinois Central shopmen's strike of 1911: 1911 Illinois, Mississippi and Texas: 30,000 2019 Los Angeles Unified School District teachers' strike: 2019 Los Angeles County, California: 30,000 1928 New Bedford textile ...

  4. Urban riot - Wikipedia

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    4 April 1968, Washington, D.C., US, A report from National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders identified discrimination and poverty as the root causes of the riots that erupted in cities around the nation during the late 1960s and in Washington, DC in April 1968 [12] Baltimore riot of 1968 4 April 1968, Baltimore, Maryland, US Glenville ...

  5. List of strikes - Wikipedia

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    Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...

  6. Timeline of labour issues and events - Wikipedia

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    A dynamite bomb destroyed a portion of the Llewellyn Iron works in Los Angeles, where a strike was in progress. In April 1911 James B. McNamara and his older brother John F. McNamara, secretary-treasurer of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers , were charged with the two crimes.

  7. The SAG-WGA Double Strike of 1960: How Tony Curtis ... - AOL

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    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 ...

  8. Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties - Wikipedia

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    "Set the Night on Fire by Mike Davis and Jon Wiener review – the real LA in the 1960s". The Guardian. Samuel Farber. "The Many Explosions of Los Angeles in the 1960s". Jacobin.. "Mike Davis and Jon Wiener's chronicle of Los Angeles in the 1960s, Set the Night on Fire, isn't just a stunning portrait of a city in upheaval half a century ago.

  9. Category:1960s in Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "1960s in Los Angeles" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *