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Angelo Sbardellotto, born on this day in 1907, was an Italian anarchist executed by the state for plotting to assassinate Benito Mussolini; he refused to ask for clemency, instead telling the court he regretted not succeeding in his plan.
Denise Oliver-Velez, born on this day in 1947, is a former member of both the Young Lords and Black Panthers, as well as an American professor, activist, and community organizer.
Frank H. Little was an American labor leader and organizer with the IWW who, on this day in 1917, was sprung from jail and lynched in Butte, Montana. 10,000 workers lined the route of his funeral procession.
Mary "Mother" Jones, baptized on this day in 1837, was an Irish-born American schoolteacher and dressmaker who became a prominent and militant union organizer in American labor movement. "I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser."
![A protest by black workers during the Transit Strike of 1944. Signs read "WE DRIVE TANKS WHY NOT TROLLEYS?" and "WAR EFFORT NEGROES WANT TO WORK" [washingtonpost.com]](https://stahmaxffcqankienulh.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/event-photos/Events/philadelphiaTransitStrike.jpg)
The Philadelphia Transit Strike of 1944 was a sickout strike by white transit workers in Philadelphia that began on this day that year, in protest of black employees being allowed to hold non-menial jobs during a wartime labor shortage.
Image: A protest by black workers during the Transit Strike of 1944. Signs read "WE DRIVE TANKS WHY NOT TROLLEYS?" and "WAR EFFORT NEGROES WANT TO WORK" [washingtonpost.com]
William "Sid" Hatfield was a police chief of Matewan, West Virginia who was supportive of coal miners' attempts to unionize, for which he was assassinated on this day in 1921 by anti-labor Baldwin-Felts agents.