This week's feature is out now! We tell the story of how Baltimorean workers rose up and empowered themselves through a July 1877 railroad labor action, which developed into the first national strike in U.S. history: https://www.baltimorehistories.com/post/baltimore-and-the-great-railroad-strike-of-1877
Image source: “The Great strike—the Sixth Maryland Regiment fighting its way through Baltimore, from a p[hotogr]aph by D. Bendann,” Harper’s Weekly (New York, NY), August 11, 1877, https://www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3b45187/.
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