#labor-history

#labor-history

Ewing argues that America's educational system, rooted in 18th-century racial ideas, perpetuates societal hierarchies, with schools actively constructing and upholding them.

On the first Monday in September 1882, the first Labor Day parade was held at Union Square. That first parade was such a success it caused more people across the U.S. to pay attention to workers' rights, historians say, and in 1894, President Grover Cleveland made Labor Day a national holiday.