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On this day in 1974, the life story of Ned Cobb, a radical black worker in the American South who served more than 13 years in prison to keep his farm, was published under the title "All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw".
Aunt Molly Jackson was an American folk singer and a union activist who died on this day in 1960. Arrested at age ten for her family's union activities, she grew up to author songs such as "I Am a Union Woman" and "Poor Miner's Farewell".
The Communist Party of the United States of America was established on this day in 1919. CPUSA provided legal aid to the Scottsboro Boys, helped poor Southern farmers form sharecropper unions, and promoted communist ideas within the U.S.
Image: The CPUSA logo, showing a hammer overlaying a sickle and gear
![Workers in Bologne, Italy, 1920 [workerscontrol.net]](https://stahmaxffcqankienulh.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/event-photos/Events/italy1920Workers.jpg)
On this day in 1920, the first of many worker occupations and seizures of factories in Italy began, a movement that more than half a million workers participated in.
Image: Workers in Bologne, Italy, 1920 [workerscontrol.net]
Roger Casement, born on this day in 1864, was a human rights journalist and Irish revolutionary who exposed imperialist atrocities in the Congo and Peru. He was executed by the British for trying to raise military aid for the 1916 Easter Rising.
Walter Reuther, born on this day in 1907, was an American leader of organized labor and civil rights activist who helped build the United Automobile Workers (UAW) into a politically progressive labor union.