Meagan DayEast Bay DSA Should Hit the Ground Running on Bernie 2020Let’s make the most of this opportunity for mass political education and organizational growthNov 28, 20181Nov 28, 20181
Meagan DayinTimelineThe First Black-Led Union Wouldn’t Have Existed Without This WomanBehind the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was a sisterhoodJun 18, 2018Jun 18, 2018
Meagan DayinTimelineThe extraordinary courage of an ordinary woman: Lorena Weeks broke barriers for working womenShe’d been told that men are the breadwinners, so “women just don’t need this type of job”Jun 1, 20182Jun 1, 20182
Meagan DayinTimelineWhen the resistance confronted Democrats in 1968, the crackdown was viciousThe Chicago convention forever changed the partyMay 22, 201816May 22, 201816
Meagan DayinTimelineWelcome to Operation Dixie, the most ambitious unionization attempt in the U.S.Southern segregation, racism and a militarized police meant the plan was destined to failMay 8, 20182May 8, 20182
Meagan DayinTimelineWhite workers in New Orleans opposed segregation — out of self-interestWhen white union members saw the value of uniting with black workers, an alliance was bornMay 1, 20185May 1, 20185
Meagan DayinTimelineWhen this Ivy League school planned a segregated gymnasium, students held the dean hostageStudents and Harlem residents came together to say no to racism, gentrification, and the Vietnam warApr 25, 20183Apr 25, 20183
Meagan DayinTimelineThe richest American family hired terrorists to shoot machine guns at sleeping women and childrenThe Rockefellers took on the striking miners of Ludlow, Colorado but didn’t expect them to fight backApr 3, 201835Apr 3, 201835
Meagan DayinTimelineWhen these women were told they would have to work for starvation wages, they called BSDuring the ‘Bread and Roses’ strike, American immigrants from 40 nations came together to fight the manMar 26, 20186Mar 26, 20186
Meagan DayinTimelineHow poor, mostly Jewish immigrants organized 20,000 and fought for workers’ rightsThese women came ready to fightMar 9, 20184Mar 9, 20184
