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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History July 10, 1921: Bloody Sunday: Seventeen people died and 200 houses were destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The violence erupted the day before the beginning of a truce that was supposed to end the Irish War of Independence. As the truce approached, police launched a raid against republicans. However, the Irish Republican Army (IRA) ambushed them, killing an officer. In retaliation, Protestant loyalists attacked Catholic enclaves in west Belfast. As a result, Protestants and Catholics paramilitaries battled each other in the streets. There were also gun battles between Republicans and the police. And police also fired indiscriminately at Catholic civilians. Belfast saw almost 500 people killed from 1920–22 in political and sectarian violence related to the Irish War of Independence.

The Irish War of Independence has been portrayed in the play “The Shadow of a Gunman,” by Seán O'Casey, the 1929 novel, “The Last September,” by Elizabeth Bowen, the 1931 short story, “Guests of the Nation,” by Frank O'Connor and the more recent novels: “Troubles,” by J. G. Farrell (1970), “The Old Jest,” (1979) by Jennifer Johnston, and “The Soldier's Song,” (2010) by Alan Monaghan.

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iamBullivant

In retaliation, Protestant loyalists attacked Catholic enclaves in west Belfast, burning homes and businesses. Seventeen people were killed. At least 100 people were wounded. About 200 houses were destroyed or badly damaged, most of them Catholic homes, leaving 1,000 people homeless. 2/2

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iamBullivant

On 10 July 1921 Bloody Sunday broke out in Belfast. The violence erupted one day before a truce began in the Irish War of Independence, which ended the war in most of Ireland. With the truce nearing, police launched a raid against republicans, but were ambushed by the IRA and a British officer was killed. 1/2

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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History May 20, 1938: 500 unemployed workers began a sit-down strike in the Hotel Georgia, in Vancouver, British Columbia. Unemployed men had been drifting to British Columbia during the Depression because of the milder climate and relatively better pay in the forestry camps. In early ’38, the government had cut grants to the provinces. As a result, many of the relief camps shut down and jobs dried up. In response, protesters occupied the Hotel George, the Vancouver Art Gallery and the main post office beginning on May 20. They were led by communist organizers. The owner of the hotel refused to call the cops, fearing major property damage in the melee that would ensue. So, he bribed the men to leave. However, those in the post office and art gallery remained for weeks.

The conflict culminated on Bloody Sunday (June 19), when undercover Mounties brutally beat strikers in their attempt to evict them. 42 people were hospitalized, five of whom were cops. One striker lost an eye. Those who evaded arrest, along with onlookers and supporters on the outside, then marched to the East End, smashing windows. They caused $35,000 damage.

#workingclass#LaborHistory#SitDownStrike
Shaman

Thank you #HeatherCoxRichardson for putting things into perspective...
" On August 6th, Dr. King and Mrs. Boynton were guests of honor as President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Recalling the outrage of Selma, Johnson said, this right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies."
Let's not forget that of all the rights Americans enjoy, the #RightToVote is the most consequential!
#LyndonJohnson #BloodySunday #GOPVoterSuppression
heathercoxrichardson.substack.

Letters from an American · March 7, 2025By Heather Cox Richardson
Michael Kohlman

60 Years ago today, one of the most significant stands in the name of Civil Rights and Diversity began in Selma Alabama.

Shortly after I wrapped up my CIO role with the Illinois State Board of Elections, I had the opportunity to be there on another significant moment in our country's history, where we as a new nation decided that we would no longer be ruled by Monarch's, Oligarchs, or Tyrants.

Amazingly all of the effort now seems at greater risk than ever before.

#NeverForget#BloodySunday
John Autry

March 7, 1965 - 525 civil rights advocates began a 54-mile march on a Sunday morning from Selma, Alabama, to the capital of Montgomery, to promote voting rights for blacks. Just after crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge on the outskirts of Selma, the marchers were attacked in what became known as Bloody Sunday.

Enforcing an order by Governor George Wallace, the group was broken up by state troopers and volunteer officers of the Dallas County sheriff who used tear gas, nightsticks, bullwhips and rubber tubing wrapped in barbed wire. John Lewis, then head of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and a leader of the march, suffered a fractured skull.

ABC television interrupted a Nazi war crimes drama, “Judgment at Nuremberg,” to show footage of the violence in Selma, confusing some viewers about who was beating whom.

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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History March 7, 1965: “Bloody Sunday" occurred in Selma, Alabama, with state troopers attacking civil rights marchers. People had been protesting the disenfranchisement of African American voters. From January-February, 1965, the police arrested over 3,000 protesters. On February 26, the police murdered activist and deacon Jimmie Lee Jackson. In response, organizers planned a march from Selma to Montgomery.

#WorkingClass#LaborHistory#selma
Flipboard Culture Desk

Sixty years ago, 600 activists marched in Selma, Alabama, to protest against Black voter suppression. Police attacked protestors, 58 of whom ended up in the hospital, and the episode came to be known as Bloody Sunday. Black women were not only among the crowds — they were also behind the scenes, feeding protestors, organizing meetings and more. “You may see the flashy protest, but below the surface is a strong collective of people, Black women usually, that are creating the networks, trust, community-building and organizational literacy for something [like this] to be able to take place,” Ashley D. Farmer, a civi rights historian and professor at the University of Texas at Austin, told @19thnews. Here are the stories of some of the "unsung women of Bloody Sunday."

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#History @histodons #BlackHistory @blackmastodon #WomensHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #BloodySunday #Selma #Activism #Protest

Peter Riley

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IWW Ireland · March for Justice: Bloody Sunday 2025It was one of the more traumatic days of the conflict in Ireland, and for many, the events of Bloody Sunday in Derry became a turning point as violence erupted. The 53rd anniversary of the tragic event that become known as Bloody Sunday, was commemorated in the city with thousands of people taking to the streets once again in the annual Bloody Sunday March for Justice. The horrific events of Bloody Sunday 30th January 1972, has left a lasting impact upon the lives of many, as the families of tho
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