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Happy Monday! It's been a while since we showcased some #posters from our collections, so here's one titled: Against the Wall: Protest Posters of Three Centuries.

Alice Hanson Cook (1903-1998) was a labor educator first, through her work with the YWCA industrial department, Textile Workers Union, and Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union Joint Board in Philadelphia. She continued by contributing to research at Cornell through the ILR Extension working on a project titled "Integrating of Unions and Community", where she was then recruited by ILR to teach Labor History and Union Administration courses. Beyond teaching and research, she supported local Ithaca women's groups such as the Ithaca American Association of University Women, Professional Skills Roster, and Tompkins County Chapter of National Organization for Women.

While she retired in 1973, she was far from done with labor rights activism: she continued on to write several amicus briefs for discrimination cases worldwide, worked for the Ford Foundation on a study about working women worldwide, and published "Women and Trade Unions in Eleven Industrialized Countries", among other publications. She also wrote an autobiography, "A Lifetime of Labor", where she describes her self-proclaimed "patchwork career". Now, a dorm on West Campus is named in her honor, Alice Cook House.

On this Day in 1966 ILGWU Local 91 hosted a sewing class for its members. Check out the photos! The ILGWU hosted a plethora of programming for its members, including education, sports, and performing and musical activities.

On this Day in 1888, the United Hebrew Trades was organized in New York, with Bernard Weinstein, Morris Hillquit, and Abe Cahan among its leaders. In 1933 they issued their Souvenir Journal commemorating 45 years of service in which founding member Morris Hillquit saluted the organization and its members, just weeks before his death.

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