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![A Black Panther Party member holds a rifle outside the California State Capitol on May 2nd, 1967, during a protest against a bill that banned carrying loaded guns in public. From the Bettman Archive [buzzfeed.org]](https://stahmaxffcqankienulh.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/event-photos/Events/blackPanthersCaliCapitol.jpg)
On this day in 1967, 30 armed Black Panthers entered the California State Capitol building while openly carrying firearms in protest of the Mulford Act, bipartisan-supported legislation designed to end Panther patrols of Oakland neighborhoods.
Image: A Black Panther Party member holds a rifle outside the California State Capitol on May 2nd, 1967, during a protest against a bill that banned carrying loaded guns in public. From the Bettman Archive [buzzfeed.org]
![Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement Flier, 1969. Its text reads "strike your blow against racism do your part no work today blackworkers strike Only Racist Honkies & Uncle Toms Traitors Work Today Rally to be Held Today 13305 Dexter at Davison up stairs refreshments". From Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University. [blackpast.org]](https://stahmaxffcqankienulh.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/event-photos/Organizations/drum.jpg)
On this day in 1968, 4,000 black and white workers at a Dodge plant in Hamtramck, Michigan went on a wildcat strike to protest working conditions, leading to the formation of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM).
Image: Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement Flier, 1969. Its text reads "strike your blow against racism do your part no work today blackworkers strike Only Racist Honkies & Uncle Toms Traitors Work Today Rally to be Held Today 13305 Dexter at Davison up stairs refreshments". From Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University. [blackpast.org]
On this day in 1919, anarchist pacifist Gustav Landauer was murdered in prison by counterrevolutionaries in Munich. He had been arrested as the right-wing Freikorps, on orders from the Social Democrat Party, crushed the Bavarian Soviet Republic.
Image: Gustav Landauer's grave on the Neuer Israelitischer Friedhof in Munich. The grave is shared with Kurt Eisner.
![A man flies the French tricolor flag over crowds marching to the Arc de Triomphe during the Paris students' strike. [npr.org]](https://stahmaxffcqankienulh.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/event-photos/Events/may68.jpg)
On this day in 1968, the May 68 Rebellion, the largest general strike in French history, began when school officials shut down the University of Paris after months of student protests, escalating to nationwide unrest.
Image: A man flies the French tricolor flag over crowds marching to the Arc de Triomphe during the Paris students' strike. [npr.org]