Sharing Our Group History
Posted June 7, 2003
by Bobby Hall
The Working Women’s History Project
began as the Women & Labor History Project in 1996.
We launched our first theater project with Kathleen Miles’ “Come Along and Join” and an address by Karen Nussbaum, head of the new Working Women’s Department of the AFL-CIO. At this event we celebrated the birthdays of two beloved union women, Vickie Starr of the Packinghouse Workers and the Teamsters and Mollie West of the Typographical Union and Secretary of the Illinois Labor History Society.
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