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Building a socialist movement in Camel City 🐪
Mar 27, 2021 9 tweets 4 min read
At our general meeting today, we decided to present and learn about some phenomenal women who have been integral to our country's rich and radical labor tradition - Please feel free to read, learn, and share. bit.ly/3we50ph (HOMETOWN HERO) VELMA HOPKINS - organized a walk out at RJ Reynolds tobacco that led to a demonstration of over 10k workers at the door of RJ Reynolds headquarters. This led to the formation of the historic Local 22. This was an integrated union, LED BY BLACK WOMEN, in the 1940s