1919 
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SOURCE: NY Times
11/29/19
The Forgotten Origins of Paid Family Leave
by Mona L. Siegel
In 1919, activists from around the world pressed governments to adopt policies to help working mothers.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
10/28/19
Zombie flu: How the 1919 influenza pandemic fueled the rise of the living dead
by Elizabeth Outka
The rise of the living dead, though, has a surprising link to another recurring October visitor: the influenza virus.
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SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
9/30/19
‘Nineteen Nineteen’ Review: A Year Seen Through the Lens of Its Artifacts
The Huntington hosts an exhibition as surprising, intriguing and, well, frenetic as the year 1919.
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SOURCE: NY Times
8/31/19
Recovering the Memory of a Black Church Destroyed During the ‘Red Summer’
Beyond the lynchings, 1919 became notable for another tactic that white mobs used to strike at the heart of African-American communities: attacking black churches just as they were emerging as the center of black life in America.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
8/18/19
A rural town confronts its buried history of mass killings of black Americans
100 years after hundreds of African Americans were reportedly killed in Elaine, Arkansas, a memorial is set to bring details of the tragedy to light.
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8/4/19
Remembering The Red Summer 100 Years Later
by David Krugler
How should the challenging but essential task of remembering and commemorating this troubling history be confronted?
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SOURCE: USA Today
7/23/19
Hundreds of black Americans were killed during 'Red Summer.' A century later, still ignored
It was branded "Red Summer" because of the bloodshed and amounted to some of the worst white-on-black violence in U.S. history.
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SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
4/16/19
Immigration, Race, and Women’s Rights, 1919 and Today
by Arnold R. Isaacs
The comparison couldn’t, in many ways, be grimmer or more telling.
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SOURCE: NY Times
3/28/19
What if Churchill Had Been Prime Minister in 1919?
by Andrew Roberts
More than most, he understood the grave challenges facing the West at the end of World War I.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
2/6/19
Why the Seattle General Strike of 1919 should inspire a new generation of labor activists
by Steven C. Beda
Remembering the 1919 Seattle General Strike on its 100th anniversary.
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