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Historian and living-history presenter Bev York portrays Mary Harris “Mother” Jones (1837–1930), the Irish immigrant who became a powerful labor leader and union organizer during the Gilded Age. Discover how she fought against child labor, unsafe working conditions, and the exploitation of workers in the nation’s mines and factories.Learn about Mother Jones’s famous 1903 “Children’s Crusade,” when she led young mill and mine workers on a march demanding the right to go to school instead of working in the mines. Bev will bring Mother Jones’s life and words to life while exploring the early labor movement and connecting these historical struggles to workplace and labor issues that continue today.
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This program is sponsored by the Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut.
Otis Library was designed to accommodate people of all abilities. To request an accommodation, please contact Kari Wall at [email protected].
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