New play highlights Atlanta labor history

Name: New play highlights Atlanta labor history
Uploaded: 2024-07-05T12:44:24Z
Duration: 2 min 44 s
Description: The new play ''The Wash'' tells the real-life story of the 1881 Atlanta washerwomen strike, during which Black laundresses led a strike for better wages in the weeks leading up to the International Cotton Exposition.

The new play ''The Wash'' tells the real-life story of the 1881 Atlanta washerwomen strike, during which Black laundresses led a strike for better wages in the weeks leading up to the International Cotton Exposition.

By Paul Milliken

Posted July 5, 2024 8:44am EDT