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Sept. 2, 2020
Jahdziah St. Julien was a guest on NPR's Code Switch to discuss the Atlanta Washerwomen's Strike of 1881 in order to provide context for the recent NBA strike:
Jahdziah St. Julien, who works for the Better Life Lab at the New America think tank, wrote about this strike a few months ago and joined us to help tell the story of the six Black women who organized and led the strike: Matilda Crawford, Sallie Bell, Carrie Jones, Dora Jones, Orphelia Turner and Sarah A. Collier. They were fighting for better treatment and wages, and they brought the city of Atlanta to a complete standstill by refusing to work. And the strategies they used in their fight for better working conditions has implications for future generations of organizers.