Day: September 5, 2010

SundayMorningReads

Why is history so selective? I wonder how much further we would evolve in ways that really matter if blendings, crossings and past meetings were not obliterated from history. I wonder this because of LaBloga’s review of The Chinese in Mexico, because of the DuSable Museum’s Africans in Mexico Exhibit, not to mention the fact… Read More SundayMorningReads

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Labor Day Truths

During the economic panic of 1893, the Pullman Palace Car Company cut wages as demand for their train cars plummeted and the company’s revenue dropped. A delegation of workers complained of the low wages and twelve-hour workdays, and that the corporation that operated the town of Pullman didn’t decrease rents, but company owner George Pullman “loftily declined… Read More Labor Day Truths

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