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November 20 is the 20th day in November.

Events

1896 -- Rose Pesotta lives. Labor activist, the only woman on the General Executive Board of the International Ladies' Garment Workers (ILGWU), from 1933-1944, but returned to organizing, her real passion.

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/gallery/galleryindex.htm#Pesotta

1910 -- Down for the Count?: Russian anarchist, novelist, Leo Tolstoy dies

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/gallery/galleryindex.htm#Tolstoy

1912 -- US: Arturo Giovannitti sits in the Salem Jail. He is considered the "black sheep" of the Giovannitti family by many (he's in the can, so it must be true). One of the great IWW poets.

http://www.eclipse.net/~basket42/arturo.html

1916 -- James Guillaume dies. Anarchist militant & historian of the First International.

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/02ref.htm#16/1844

1919 -- Liu Shih-p'ei dies, at the early age of 36. Involved in the Chinese anarchist movement which emerged in Tokyo about the same time as another important group emerged in Paris, France.

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/11ref.htm#20/1919

1920 -- Spain: The government declares the CNT illegal & 64 union leaders are jailed.

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/07ref.htm#8/1922

1922 -- US: Muere Ricardo Flores Magón, anarchiste, en la prisión de Leavenworth.

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/MagonRicardoFlores.htm

1936 -- Buenaventura Durruti, the famous Spanish anarchist guerilla & one time bookstore owner, shot in the lung yesterday, dies.

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/Durruti.htm
http://recollectionbooks.com/anow/history/spain/

1973 -- The gravesite of Mary Seacole, a Jamaican nurse who served in the Crimean War, is restored in England.

http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/RexrothAugust221939.htm
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/RexrothKenneth.htm

1977 -- Louis Mercier Vega dies. Anarcho-syndicalist, militant, libertarian writer & militant who joined the movement at 16.

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/11ref.htm#20/1977

1991 -- Poet/anarchist Philip Levine's "What Work Is" wins the National Book Award for poetry.

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