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Marker to immortalize Reynolds union

Twenty years before the now-famous March on Washington, workers in Winston-Salem were fighting for their rights through Local 22 of the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural, and Allied Workers-Congress of Industrial Organizations (FTA-CIO). Local 22 was an interracial union of workers and their supporters who demanded better treatment, wages and benefits from tobacco giant R.J. Reynolds. The […]

By Layla Garms March 10, 2013