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Baldemar Velásquez, born on this day in 1947, is an American labor organizer who founded, and is currently President of, the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC), a union that organizes farm workers. Velásquez led his first strike at age 12.
On this day in 1968, 1/5th of San Quentin's prison population of 3,900 risked the Warden's threat of an additional year behind bars by initiating a work strike, returning to their cells after breakfast.
Susan B. Anthony, born on this day in 1820, was an American abolitionist and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. "'Organize, agitate, educate' must be our war cry."
Susan Brownmiller, born on this day in 1935, is an American feminist author, journalist, and civil rights activist best known for her 1975 book "Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape."