#OtD 22 Nov 1919 the Bogalusa massacre took place. Black labour organiser Sol Dacus was threatened by agents of the Great Southern Lumber Company. White union members and an official came to his defence and four were murdered https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9513/bogalusa-labor-massacre
Anybody wanna know about a 1960s adventure play-park in the Gorbals, run by Glaswegian folk singer Matt McGinn, which the council tried to shut down but failed cause like all the kids in the Gorbals marched on City Chambers?
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Sharing this (justly) furious verse from Ewan Robertson's song of c. 1880s about the Highland Clearances, telling Patrick Sellar to burn in hell.
Sellar, a factor (property manager) for the aristocratic Sutherland family, oversaw the forced eviction of tenants to make way for sheep, which could make landowners more money.
From Scottish Studies 1964: 104-6, Gaelic as sung by Andrew Stewart; English John MacInnes; Scots Hamish Henderson.