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LABOR HISTORY TODAY PODCAST: Red Bandanas and Solidarity

Chris Garlock | Published on 10/3/2025

This week on Labor History Today: From Camp Solidarity in West Virginia, Mine Wars Museum co-founder Wilma Steele unpacks the red bandana—tracing its paisley roots from Persia to Appalachia—and how a scrap of cloth became labor’s emblem of courage, memory, and solidarity.
And, on Labor History in 2:00: The Uprising of the 20,000.
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