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Rosenberry Lecture: Excess to Extremism: How Colorado’s National Guard Spoiled Denver’s Kitchens
In the early 1900s, the fight for workers' rights reached a fever pitch in Colorado. For over two decades unions did battle with major companies and the state government, culminating in violent attacks on striking workers by the Colorado National Guard. After prominent upper-class women defended their husbands' roles in these massacres, national labor organizer Elizabeth Gurley Flynn decried: "The queen in the parlor" has no interest in common with "the maid in the kitchen!"
Local union leader Jane Street, outraged by these massacres of striking workers and the mistreatment of domestic servants, set out on a crusade to punish Denver's elite by organizing their household staff. Jane Little Botkin will tell the story of Street’s fight to change the status quo.
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