Law in a clipping from the Daily Worker, February 12, 1938. Shows him in uniform, saluting. Reads: DIED FOR SPAIN. Oliver Law Chicago Negro Communist leader shown in the uniform of the Spanish People’s Army, gave his life in the fight against fascism in Spain. Law, a machinegun company commander, is pictured above at the front shortly before his death. By Daily Worker - https://www.newspapers.com/image/1143204012, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=169667146

Today for #BlackHistoryMonth we remember #OliverLaw (10/23/1900–7/9/1937) #communism labor organizer. 1st #AfricanAmerican to command white troops in battle. Died fighting #Fascism in #Spain. Led the #TomMooney Machinegun Battalion, named for Tom Mooney, #IWW, falsely convicted of SF bombing.

#Socialist labour leader & #IWW activist #TomMooney was sentenced to death on #ThisDayInHistory in 1917, despite the obviousness of perjured testimony and falsified evidence. His conviction was commuted to life in prison, and he was released only in 1939, dying three years later.

Photography of a graying, balding Tom Mooney in his tiny prison cell, typing on a typewriter that is positioned on his bed. He is surrounded by stacks of books and papers.

Today in #LaborHistory 2/7/1917: #IWW #union organizer #TomMooney wrongly convicted for #SanFrancisco Preparedness bombing. IJ Golden wrote play, “Precedent,” about the case. #workingclass #anarchism #prison #play #playwright #books Read more about Mooney here: michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/05/19/t...

The accompanying photo shows Oliver Law, and the Tom Mooney Machine Gun Company, part of the Abraham Lincoln Brigades, who fought in the Spanish war against fascism (AKA the Spanish Civil War). Oliver Law was a communist, and the first black man known to have commanded white U.S. troops.

Today in #LaborHistory 5/17/1917: #TomMooney execution stayed on appeal. Still spent 22 years in #prison for #SanFrancisco Preparedness Day #bombing 1916, a crime he did not commit because of his #anarchism & #IWW #union membership.

Read more here: michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/05/19/t...

February 9 Peace Love Art Activism | The Woodstock Whisperer/Jim Shelley February 9 Peace Love Art Activism What's so funny about peace, love, art, and activism? Nothing. Follow link to read more and follow a theme.

#OTD #February9 #Peace #Love #Art #Activism #IWW #TomMooney convicted 1917, #Daylightsavingtime 1942, #MaxYasgur died 1973, #VietnamWar boots on the ground 1965, #LGBTQ #MichaelSam 2014, #SCOTUS blocks emission control 2016, #suffratists 1919, plus + woodstockwhisperer.info/2017/02/09/f...

Photography of a graying, balding Tom Mooney in his tiny prison cell, typing on a typewriter that is positioned on his bed. He is surrounded by stacks of books and papers.

Today in #LaborHistory 2/7/1917: #IWW #union organizer #TomMooney wrongly convicted for #SanFrancisco Preparedness bombing. IJ Golden wrote play, “Precedent,” about the case. #workingclass #anarchism #prison #play #playwright #books Read more about Mooney here: michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/05/19/t...

January 7 Peace Love Art Activism | The Woodstock Whisperer/Jim Shelley January 7 Peace Love Art Activism, 1966 250 black students staged a march through downtown Tuskegee to protest the January 3 murder of Samuel “Sammy” Younge Jr.

#OTD #January7 #Peace #Love #Art #Activism #JeanPierreBlanchard #JohnJeffries balloon across #EnglishChannel 1785, #Krebs #0K explosion kills 100 1892, #TomMooney pardoned 1939, #Truman #Hbomb 1953, #MarionAnderson #MET 1955, #BLM #Tuskegee protest 1966, woodstockwhisperer.info/2017/01/07/j...

Free Tom Mooney poster, from Found SF: https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=TOM_MOONEY

Today in #LaborHistory 1/3/1917: Trial of labor organizer #TomMooney began in #SanFrancisco, framed for Preparedness Day bombing, along w/Warren Billings. Read more on Mooney & Billings here: michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/05/19/t...
#workingclass #anarchism #IWW #warrenbillings #bombing #union #strike