#OtD 2 Jun 1863 the Combahee River raid took place, Harriet Tubman led 150 Black Union soldiers. The only woman-led military operation during the American civil war. 750 slaves were freed and the estates of several slaveowners were looted and burned https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9200/harriet-tubman-raid

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#OtD 31 May 1921 the Tulsa racist massacre took place leaving 300 dead and 10k homeless after a fake allegation of a Black boy attacking a white woman was used to stir up white supremacist violence. Racists destroyed a whole area dubbed Black Wall St. https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10389/tulsa-racist-massacre

#OtD 31 May 1927 Donald Trump's father, Fred Trump, was arrested at a KKK rally in Queens, NYC. Despite Donald Trump denying it happened, multiple newspapers reported it, giving Fred Trump's address and reporting all those arrested as wearing KKK robes https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10390/fred-trump-arrested-at-kkk-rally

#OtD 30 May 1937 the Memorial Day massacre occurred when Chicago police opened fire on a peaceful march of striking steel workers and their families. The police murdered 10, shot, beat and hospitalised many others. No police were prosecuted https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10317/Memorial-Day-Massacre

#OtD 29 May 1830 Paris Communard, anarchist Louise Michel was born. After the Commune, she was deported to the prison colony of New Caledonia, where she supported an uprising of the Indigenous people, and later returned a national hero https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10119/louise-michel-born

#OtD 29 May 1941 Disney Studios animators in LA struck after 16 were fired for demanding union recognition. After five weeks workers won pay rises of up to 50% and nearly all their other demands. Walt Disney remained bitter about it until his death https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10122/disney-animators'-strike

#OtD 29 May 1972 the Dalit Panthers were formed in Maharashtra, India. Modelled on the US Black Panthers the Dalit Panthers was formed to combat caste discrimination. Dalit means "oppressed" in Sanskrit, and refers to members of lower castes in India https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10125/dalit-panthers-founded

#OtD 27 May 1991 14 year old Konerak Sinthasomphone was murdered by Jeffrey Dahmer after being handed him by Milwaukee police. He had escaped and 2 Black women tried to save him, but police threatened to arrest them and returned the boy to Dahmer https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9947/konerak-sinthasomphone-murdered

#OtD 27 May 1980 the South Korean army crushed the Gwangju uprising, killing dozens and arresting, torturing and imprisoning hundreds. Workers and students in Gwangju had taken up armed rebellion against the US backed military regime and held the city https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e53-the-gwangju-uprising-1980/

#OtD 25 May 1895 libertarian socialist author, Oscar Wilde, was imprisoned for two years' hard labour for having sex with men. Detention would cause him health problems which contributed to his untimely death https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9769/oscar-wilde-imprisoned

#OtD 24 May 2014 lesbian bouncer known as the "Rosa Parks of the gay community", Stormé DeLarverie, died aged 93 in Brooklyn. Born to a Black mother and a white father, she is credited by some as sparking the Stonewall riots. Learn more in our podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/2019/05/13/e21-22-the-stonewall-riots-and-pride-at-50/

#OtD 22 May 1623 English military forces met with Powhatan leaders for a peace parley. A rich doctor, John Pott, poisoned their wine, killing 200 Powhatan, then troops opened fire on survivors killing 50 more. Pott later became governor of Virginia https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9502/powhatan-poisonings

#OtD 22 May 1920 antisemitic hoax, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, was printed by Henry Ford in the Dearborn Independent and sold at all Ford outlets. He was later given Nazi Germany's highest award by Hitler https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9506/ford-publishes-antisemitism

#OtD 21 May 1980 hundreds gathered in Gwangju, S Korea, and organised themselves into a citizens' militia to combat the troops of the dictatorship after an uprising on May 18. They seized weapons and liberated the city by the next day. More in our pod: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e53-the-gwangju-uprising-1980/

#OtD 21 May 1941 a strike began of actors in Norway after 6 actors (inc pictured) were sacked for refusing to do radio work for the Nazis. The strike shut all theatres in Oslo, Bergen and Trondheim and lasted 5 weeks despite Gestapo repression https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9415/Norwegian-actors'-anti-Nazi-strike

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#OtD 20 May 1969 19-year-old Black Panther Alex Rackley was murdered in New Haven, CT by fellow activists after wrongly being accused of being a police informant, amidst a campaign of infiltration and badjacketing by the FBI and police. Learn more: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7836/alex-rackley-murdered

#OtD 19 May 1933 Germany's Nazi government abolished collective bargaining – the principle of workers collectively negotiating with employers over pay and conditions. Instead, conditions were to be regulated by labour "trustees", appointed by Hitler https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9129/nazis-abolish-collective-bargaining

#OtD 19 May 1925 El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, aka Malcolm X, was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He became one of the most influential advocates of self-defence for Black people as well as one of the foremost critics of America's institutional racism https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9128/malcolm-x-born