which of these three people was a union leader that organized strikes to defend the rights of VA. miners?
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pretty sure it's Oliver Kelly
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Civil Rights - Martin Luther King\n\nBlack Power - Huey Newton -/ Black Panther Party\n                        Angela Davis
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César Estrada Chávez (March 31, 1927–April 23, 1993) was a Mexican-American farm worker, labor leader, and activist who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers. His birthday on March 31 has subsequently become a holiday in a handful of U.S. states, and a number of parks, libraries, schools, streets, and bowling alleys have been named in his honor in several cities across America.
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Adams, Samuel(1722–1803)» American politician and Revolutionary leader, born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. A second cousin to John Adams, he studied law, failed at several business enterprises, became a tax collector, then devoted himself to politics. One of the first and most outspoken colonists to oppose British laws and policies, in the Massachusetts legislature (1765–74) he promoted corresponding with other colonies' leaders, wrote newspaper articles criticizing British rule, organized opposition to the Stamp Act in 1765, and composed and circulated a declaration of colonists' rights. He helped organize the Boston Tea Party (1773) and by 1774 was advocating open resistance to Britain. He served in the First and Second Continental Congress and signed the Declaration of Independence. At first he backed George Washington as commander-in-chief, but he criticized what he thought was an overly cautious pursuit of the war. Regarded as too radical by many, he resigned from Congress in 1781, but supported the Federal Constitution of 1787. He was lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts (1789–94), then governor (1794–7). \n© Crystal Reference 2004.
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Freedom fighters are fighting for there rights
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Do you have a Union to represent you? If so, contact them. Otherwise, I would suggest the Bureau of Labor Relations, or some agency that deals with workers rights.\nGood luck!
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Abraham Lincoln\nJefferson Davis\nFrederick Douglass\nRobert E. Lee\nHarriet Beecher Stowe\nStonewall Jackson\nUllysses S Grant\nWomen of the civil war(find names at the site listed below)
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West Virginia Admitted as the 35th State in the Union\nJune 20, 1863\n\nWith the outbreak of the Civil War, Virginia seceded from the Union in 1861. Very few of the residents of the western counties owned slaves, so they decided to stay with the Union. As a result, West Virginia, where "Mountaineers Are Always Free," was formed.
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the workers. It is a big Union day for labor
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Are you looking for historical figures, or current activists?  \n\nThis is the link to a current activist site\n\nhttp://www.sweatshopwatch.org/\n\nThe entire labor movement we know today was born in part out of a reaction to sweatshops, and some of the tragedies that befell workers in the early 19th century.
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Martin Luther King Jr., also protested for many African Americans to have the right to vote in certain southern states like Alabamba, Missississippi, Louisiana, etc. \nCheck out this source to find more information for your report.
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Other great leaders with drive and commitment to their cause would include Patrick Henry, Martin Luther King, Jr.
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c. collective bargaining
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Union...so that every employee regardless of rank will be listened to. they will have a voice and they will be well represented.
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ELIZABETH VAN LEW \n1818-1900(?) \n\n       The first Union flag to wave over Richmond in four years was raised in 1865 by this famous and effective Union spy. Born into a prominent Richmond family, Elizabeth Van Lew returned from her schooling in Philadelphia as an adamant abolitionist determined to fight slavery in the bastion of the South. "Slave power," she wrote in her diary, "is arrogant, is jealous and intrusive, is cruel, is despotic." Outspoken and rebellious, she appeared to her neighbors to be more than a little eccentric and soon became known as "Crazy Bet." \n       After Virginia seceded and Fort Sumter fell, she used her reputation for innocuous idiosyncracy as a shield behind which her shrewd and resourceful mind devised schemes to abet the Union cause from within Richmond. Her first target was the Confederate Libby Prison, which imprisoned Union captives. Pretending to make a merely humanitarian gesture, Van Lew brought baskets of food, medicine, and books to the prisoners. What she brought out would have shocked the guards she learned to charm and deceive. \n       Not only did Van Lew help some prisoners escape, she also gleaned valuable information from various sources inside the prison. Newly arrived Union prisoners secretly recounted the strength and dispositions of Confederate troops they had seen on their way from the front to Richmond. Of even more use was information carelessly conveyed to the "harmless Crazy Bet" by Confederate guards and by the prison's Confederate commandant, Lieutenant David H.Todd (Mary Todd Lincoln's half-brother). \n       She even managed to penetrate the home of President Jefferson Davis by convincing one of her former servants to secure a position in the Davis household staff. At first, Van Lew simply mailed the information she retrieved in letters posted to Federal authorities. As her work continued, her methods grew more sophisticated. She devised a code involving words and letters that prisoners would underline in the books she lent them. \n       Van Lew also sent her household servants--though she had freed the family's slaves, many of them chose to stay with her--northward carrying baskets of farm produce. Each basket held some eggs, one of which contained encoded messages in place of its natural contents. She sent her information directly to Benjamin Butler as well as to Grant through an elaborate courier system. It was so fast and effective that General Grant often received flowers still fresh from his spy's large garden. Grant would later say of her efforts, "You have sent me the most valuable information received from Richmond during the war."\n       After the war, President Grant rewarded Van Lew with a job as postmistress of Richmond, which she held from 1869 to 1877. Although revered in the North, she was, needless to say, ostracized by her Richmond neighbors. "No one will walk with us on the street," she wrote, "no one will go with us anywhere; and it grows worse and worse as the years roll on." Failing to be reappointed postmistress under Rutherford B. Hayes, she lived on a annuity from the family of a Union soldier she bad helped in Libby Prison. She died in Richmond, probably in 1900.
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David Hamilton Jackson\n(1884-1946)\n\navid H. Jackson was born in Estate East Hill, St.Croix on September, 28 1884.  He was an educator and later became a bookkeeper at a business owned by James C. Canegata, but he was only there for a few months before he began his work for the Danish owned territory of the Virgin Islands.\n\nSince 1779 the Danes had pressed strict censorship on all publications in the territory.  That same year an ordinance was authorized providing that only government subsidized newspapers could be published under strict government censorship.  Jackson traveled to Denmark & successfully petitioned the King of Denmark for removal of this law.  When Jackson returned home he organized the first free newspaper,  the Herald.  Liberty day is now holiday celebration of the this event.\n\nThe Herald Newspaper was just the beginning of Jackson's efforts for his people.  Ralph Bough helped Jackson organize the first labor union in the Danish West Indies during 1913.  With this union the people were able to abandon physical uprisings and begin discussing the problems with organized protests.\n\nThe labor movement later included St. Thomas, where the majority of the laborers were coal workers at the West India company wharf .  They earned $1 or more a day.  Only a small amount of St. Thomians were farmers, earning less.  On Sept. 1, 1892 the women (the majority of the coal workers were women) coal workers got frantic and demanded a wage increase and a payment in gold or its equivalent.  Gathering at Market Square and wielding sticks and other weapons to make their point.  Even though surrounded by 40 soldiers armed and prepared to take shots at the packed group, it was hard to keep the people in control.  Captain Pauludan of the military force was ready to give orders to shoot but Judge Fischer restrained him.  Luckily it rained and the crowd dispersed.\n\nThe next St. Thomas labor protest of the workers was in 1916.  By this time they had  organized the St. Thomas labor union with the help of George A. Moorehead, with a membership of about 2,700.  The coal carriers and other laborers were on strike in Oct. 1916 causing 3 ships go elsewhere for coal.  The West India Company  then entered into an agreement with the St. Thomas labor union, and began paying higher wages for the newly unionized workers.\n\nAfter the labor movement the Danish government sent down a commission to study what was happening in the Danish Virgin Islands.  They came to the conclusion that Denmark was too far away and was not knowledgeable enough of the problems in the Danish West Indies, they'ld save money if they transferred the Virgin Islands to the United States rather than invest lots of money to spend improving the poor conditions.  With entry into the American market, the commission believed that the islands economy would be improved.  Fed up with the promises of reform that the Danish government had given in the past, Jackson led the way in gaining support for the transfer of the Virgin Islands.  And even after the transfer Jackson had to fight for the citizenship of the residents of the new U.S. territory.\n\nDavid Hamilton Jackson died in 1946.  After serving his people as an educator, editor, labor leader, lawyer, judge, and legislator.  A housing project in Christiansted has been named in his honor.  And his birthday is a U.S. Virgin Island Holiday.
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James Shields (May 10, 1810 – June 1, 1879) was an American politician and U.S. Army officer who was born in Altmore, County Tyrone, Ireland. Shields, a Democrat, is the only person in United States history to serve as a U.S. Senator for three different states.