#OtD 23 Apr 1971 1000 Vietnam War veterans returned their medals to the government. They'd planned to return them in body bags but authorities erected a fence around the Capitol building so the veterans threw their medals over it. More info in our pod: workingclasshistory.com/2018/08/06/e10…

#OtD 23 Apr 1971 Ecuadorian Indigenous communist, Dolores Cacuango, died aged 89. She fought the dictatorship, established Indigenous schools and took part in the landless workers' movements for decades stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9536/d…

#OtD 23 Apr 1951 16-year-old schoolgirl Barbara Johns led her fellow pupils in a walkout against racist and poor conditions in her school. It helped lead to the Supreme Court later declaring segregation unconstitutional stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9535/b…

#OtD 23 Apr 1930 the Qissa Khwani Bazaar massacre took place in Peshawar, Pakistan. Anti-colonial protesters were hit by British armoured cars, causing several deaths and British troops then opened fire, resulting in approximately 400 deaths stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9530/q…

#OtD 23 Apr 1918 a massive general strike was held in Ireland in protest at the threat of conscription to the UK army, shutting down the country. Conscription was introduced but not one person was actually conscripted stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9529/g…

#OtD 23 Apr 1976 Catalan anarchist Enric Duran i Giralt ‘Robin Bank' was born. He later robbed dozens of Spanish banks of around half a million euros to finance anti-capitalist social movements stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/12540/…

📣 New Podcast! '23 April 1938: Jamaicans demand minimum wage' on @Spreaker #black #history #jamaica spreaker.com/episode/23-apr…

#OtD 22 Apr 1944 200 Black people, mostly Howard University students, held a sit-in at a segregated restaurant in Washington DC. The disruption forced HQ to order the branch to start serving Black customers. A key organiser was LGBT+ Pauli Murray (pictured) stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9444/t…

#OtD 22 Apr 1993 Stephen Lawrence, a Black British man, was murdered by racists in London. Public pressure following the failure to convict the killers led to revelations of institutional racism within the British Police stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9445/s…

#OtD 22 Apr 1891 anarchist Nicola Sacco was born in Italy. Moving to the US, he was later framed with Bartolomeo Vanzetti for murder, sparking an international campaign for their release, but they were both executed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9442/n…

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#OtD 22 Apr 1944 200 Black people, mostly Howard University students, held a sit-in at a segregated restaurant in Washington DC. The disruption forced HQ to order the branch to start serving Black customers. A key organiser was LGBT+ Pauli Murray (pictured) stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9444/t…

#OtD 22 Apr 1891 anarchist Nicola Sacco was born in Italy. Moving to the US, he was later framed with Bartolomeo Vanzetti for murder, sparking an international campaign for their release, but they were both executed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9442/n…

📣 New Podcast! '22 April 1944: Thompsons cafeteria sit-in' on @Spreaker #black #history spreaker.com/episode/22-apr…

#OtD 22 Apr 1973 the first LGBT+ rights protest took place in Chile when 40 young people demonstrated in Santiago demanding an end to police harassment. Led by sex workers and gender nonconforming people the protest was widely condemned by the press stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/11256/…

📣 New Podcast! '22 April 1944: Thompsons cafeteria sit-in' on @Spreaker #black #history spreaker.com/episode/22-apr…

#OtD 21 Apr 1967 the military instituted a right-wing dictatorship in Greece, arresting 1000s of activists as well as torturing and denying civil rights