#OnThisDay, 11 Mar 1959, Lorraine Hansberry's play, A Raisin in the Sun, is the first play by a Black woman to debut on Broadway.

Hansberry was a rising star when she died young of cancer. Her posthumous play, Young Gifted and Black, inspired her friend Nina Simone to write the song of the same name. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hdVFiANBTk

#OnThisDay, 11 Mar 1942, the current Waterloo Bridge in London partially opens. The construction force included many women, giving it the nickname “the Ladies Bridge”.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #LondonHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons

https://historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/news/england-built-by-women/

#OnThisDay, 11 Mar 1928, hundreds of women march through London to a Communist Party rally, demanding better working conditions.

[photo via https://redflagwalks.wordpress.com/2018/03/08/pawky-comments-in-downing-street-the-march-of-the-women-on-11th-march-1928/ ]

#OtD 10 Mar 1952 Fulgencio Batista led a coup in Cuba. Backed by the US, business, his government killed thousands in anti-Communist purges. He was eventually overthrown by the revolution in 1959 https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8220/fulgencio-batista-coup [stories.workingclasshistory.com]

#OtD 10 Mar 1923 CNT union activist Salvador Seguí was assassinated on the street in Barcelona. Francesc Comes was wounded and died a few days later. The killing was by gunmen of the "Sindicatos Libres", an extreme right-wing Catholic nationalist "union". https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8219/assassination-of-salvador-segu%C3%AD [stories.workingclasshistory.com]

#OtD 10 Mar 1920 the El Bordo mine fire occurred in Pachuca, Mexico, killing dozens of miners. The US company sealed the mine claiming 10 people inside had died. But later 87 bodies were found, many burned after they were shut in. 7 miraculously survived. https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8217/el-bordo-fire [stories.workingclasshistory.com]

#OtD 10 Mar 1919 Leo Jogiches, Polish-German communist, key figure of the Spartacus League & KPD, and lover of Rosa Luxemburg, was murdered while trying to investigate the assassinations of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8216/leo-jogiches-murdered [stories.workingclasshistory.com]

#OtD 10 Mar 1896 surrealist writer, model, anarchist and anti-racist Nancy Cunard was born in London. Active in promoting Black writers, opposing the invasion of Ethiopia, helping Spanish anti-fascist refugees and working with the French resistance. https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8214/nancy-cunard [stories.workingclasshistory.com]

#OtD 9 Mar 1916 Pancho Villa, a leader in the Mexican Revolution and ally of Emiliano Zapata, led a raid on Columbus, New Mexico. It was in opposition to US support for Venustiano Carranza, who opposed land redistribution https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10924/pancho-villa-columbus-raid [stories.workingclasshistory.com]

#OTD 3/09/24 #birds #birding #aBirdAday (or more) Common loon at Elkhorn Slough

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