The Making of the Springfield Working Class

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In September 1917, Ohio Governor James M. Cox—soon to be the Democratic nominee for president in 1920—marked Labor Day with a lengthy public address. After a few words praising the American Federation of Labor (AFL) for patriotically complying with the war effort, he turned to the then-emerging phenomenon that we now call the Great Migration. […]

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