2-28-16 The Price of Demanding Equal Pay in 2:00

[Omaha Steve]

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http://laborhistoryin2.podbean.com/e/february-28-2016-the-price-of-demanding-equal-pay/




February 28, 2016
On this day in Labor History the year was 1942. That was the day that Sue Cowan Williams filed a lawsuit for equal pay for black school teachers in Little Rock, Arkansas. Eighty-six black teachers worked in the city’s segregated school system. They were all members of the Little Rock Class Room Teachers Association.

2:00 minute audio at link.

[malaise]

1. Thanks Omaha Steve

[Peace Patriot]

2. Wow! Go there and listen to this! I didn't know her story. Thanks, Omaha Steve!

It's a short narrative and very powerful. She gets fired for filing a discrimination lawsuit about egregiously unequal pay between black and white teachers. She is vindicated ultimately but not until a decade later.

Sue Cowan Williams is a woman of extraordinary courage! She is a model for us all! DON'T ACCEPT INEQUALITY whether you're black, brown, female, gay or just poor and over-worked and underpaid in our extremely unjust society!

DON'T ACCEPT IT! Know it is wrong! Fight it! If not for yourself, for your kids, for the future! And support people like Sue Cowan Williams with the amazing courage to stand up against inequality in the face of what I'm sure was mortal danger.

Today we have the courage of Black Lives Matter activists fighting against the mortal danger of just being black on a city street--let alone being the most oppressed communities in a billionaire-wrecked economy. We need to stand together for equal justice! We need to stand together for a fair economy for all!

That is what Sue Cowan Williams was trying to teach us way back then. What a great teacher she was!

[Dont call me Shirley]

3. A beautiful woman.