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ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. (AP) A state historic highway marker now commemorates Operation Dixie, a union organizing campaign that began 65 years ago in Rocky Mount.
The Rocky Mount Telegram reported (http://bit.ly/pCjmwa) that a celebration was held Saturday at the Imperial Center for the Arts & Sciences. Ninety-four-year-old Cara Baines Tann says she and other China American Tobacco plant workers joined a union in 1946 to negotiate for better working conditions. Continued
Monday, September 5, 2011
Highway sign now marks tobacco drive
Photo: Officers of Tobacco Trade Union, Petersburg, Va., circa 1899 (Library of Congress).
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