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May 19

Two hundred sixteen miners die from an explosion and its aftermath at the Fraterville Mine in Anderson County, Tenn. All but three of Fraterville?s adult males were killed. The mine had a reputation for fair contracts and pay?miners were represented by the United Mine Workers?and was considered safe; methane may have leaked in from a nearby mine - 1902

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May 18

In what may have been baseball?s first labor strike, the Detroit Tigers refuse to play after team leader Ty Cobb is suspended: he went into the stands and beat a fan who had been heckling him. Cobb was reinstated and the Tigers went back to work after the team manager?s failed attempt to replace the players with a local college team: their pitcher gave up 24 runs - 1912

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May 17

Supreme Court outlaws segregation in public schools - 1954

May 17

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May 16

Minneapolis general strike backs Teamsters, who are striking most of the city?s trucking companies - 1934

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May 15

Pope Leo XIII issues revolutionary encyclical 'Rerum novarum' in defense of workers and the right to organize. Forty years later to the day, Pope Pius XI issues 'Quadragesimo anno,? believed by many to be even more radical than Leo XIII?s - 1891 U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of Samuel Gompers and other union leaders for supporting a boycott at the Buck Stove and Range Co. in St. Louis, where workers were striking for a 9-hour day. A lower court had forbidden the boycott and sentenced the unionists to prison for refusing to obey the judge?s anti-boycott injunction - 1906

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May 13

Some 10,000 IWW dock workers strike in Philadelphia - 1913 UAW President Douglas A. Fraser is named to the Chrysler Corp. board of directors, becoming the first union representative ever to sit on the board of a major U.S. corporation - 1980

May 13