Mark Twain, a lifelong member of the International Typographical Union (now part of CWA), speaks in Hartford, Conn., extolling the Knights of Labor?s
commitment to fair treatment of all workers, regardless of race or gender - 1886
Greedy industrialist turned benevolent philanthropist Andrew Carnegie pledges $5.2 million for the construction of 65 branch libraries in New York
City -- barely 1 percent of his net worth at the time.