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December 4

President Roosevelt announces the end of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), concluding the four-year run of one of the American government's most ambitious public works programs.

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December 3

General strike begins in Oakland, Calif., started by female department store clerks ? 1946

December 3

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December 2

Court documents filed in Boston say Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has agreed to pay $40 million to 87,500 Massachusetts employees who claimed the retailer denied them rest and meal breaks, manipulated time cards and refused to pay overtime - 2009

December 2

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December 1

African American Rosa Parks refuses to go to the back of a Montgomery, Ala.bus, fueling the growing civil rights movement's campaign to win desegregation and end the deep South's "Jim Crow" laws ? 1955

December 1

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November 30

Mother Jones died at the Burgess Farm in Adelphi, Md.; ?I?m not a lady, I?m a hell-raiser!? ? 1930

November 30