“No Jim Crow in the IWO!”, the rallying cry heard from 80 Fifth Avenue for a quarter century
For nearly a quarter of a century, the International Workers Order fought relentlessly for racial equality.
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The International Workers Order’s Fight to Protect All Americans, from 80 Fifth Avenue
For twenty four years, the entire existence of the organization, the International Workers Order (IWO) was headquartered at 80 Fifth Avenue (southeast corner of 14th Street), an elaborately-detailed Renaissance Revival style office building designed in 1908 by Buchman and Fox. This progressive mutual-benefit fraternal organization was a pioneering force in the U.S. labor movement, which […]
Henry Wallace: Progressive Pioneer
Henry Agard Wallace (October 7, 1888 – November 18, 1965) served as Vice President under Franklin Delano Roosevelt from January 20, 1941 to January 20, 1945. Roosevelt preferred that Wallace serve a second term as Vice President, in which case he would have become our 33rd President, but other forces intervened to bounce him off […]
Greenwich Village: Birthplace of Modern American Drama part 4 in a series
Believe it or not, the Soho Playhouse is actually within the Charlton-King-Vandam Historic District, which was designated 50 years ago this week, a district which is part of the larger South Village. At 15 Vandam, it might have continued as another in the row of 1820s Federal style houses. However in the late 19th century, […]