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After years of escalating tensions over pay, 4,000 miners, organized across racial lines, in Birmingham, Alabama began striking on this day in 1908, quickly growing to more than 10,000 in strength and clashing with police.
![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, in defiance of union leadership, thousands of black workers from the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM) initiated a three-day wildcat strike to protest racist policies from both Chrysler and the UAW.
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]
![The bombed ruins of Society Hill Missionary Baptist Church, McComb, Mississippi, site of a Freedom School. [crmvet.org]](https://stahmaxffcqankienulh.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/event-photos/Events/freedomHouseBombing.jpg)
On this day in 1964, a Freedom House, buildings used by civil rights activists as organizing hubs, in McComb, Mississippi was bombed, the fourth one to be bombed in the city since Freedom Summer volunteers had arrived two weeks earlier.
Image: The bombed ruins of Society Hill Missionary Baptist Church, McComb, Mississippi, site of a Freedom School. [crmvet.org]
Ghassan Kanafani was a Palestinian author and leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), assassinated on this day in 1972 by Israeli forces in retaliation for the Lod Airport Massacre, claimed by the PLFP.