Protest at Piedmont Leaf Tobacco Company, 1946

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Courtesy Forsyth County Public Library.

Date created: 1946
License: This photograph copyright ©2008. Terms of use
Source: Original image housed by Digital Forsyth

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Postwar North Carolina: Primary sources and readings explore the history of North Carolina and the United States during the postwar era (1945–1975). (Page 3.3)

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Strikers from United Tobacco Workers Local 22 union on the picket line.

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