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Workers' Rights Are Civil Rights

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 08.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Efca, Pension, Minimum Wage, Rich Trumka, Wal-Mart, Wall Street, Sen. Blanche Lincoln, Employee Free Choice Act, Little Rock, Afl-Cio, Central High School, Rev. Wendell Griffin, Wall Street Bonus, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

This week the minimum wage rose by 70 cents to $7.25 an hour, a beggar's lot really, but still corporations across America decried it.

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Elizabeth Eckford, Of The Little Rock Nine, Tells Her Life Story

Vanity Fair | David Margolick | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Little Rock, Racism, Elizabeth Eckford, Central High School, Segregation, Arkansas, Civil Rights, Integration, Home News

It was a school night, and Elizabeth Eckford was too excited to sleep. The next morning, September 4, 1957, was her first day of classes, and one last...

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