July 14

Woody Guthrie, writer of "This Land is Your Land" and "Union Maid," born in Okemah, OK. – 1912
 

Also on this date: The Great Uprising nationwide railway strike begins in Martinsburg, WV after railroad workers are hit with their second pay cut in a year. Italian immigrants and anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are convicted in Massachusetts of murder and payroll robbery – unfairly, most historians agree – after a two-month trial, and are eventually executed.

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