Word: paterson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Anthony Traina Paterson...
RIDING ACROSS the dusty plains of Mexico with Pancho Villa and his band; rallying the members of the International Workers of the World to close the Paterson silk mills; storming the Winter Palace in Leningrad, shoulder to shoulder with the Bolsheviks in 1917--this is the stuff of which a radical's fantasies are made. Indeed, the entire adult life of John Reed '10 reads like a travelogue of the great events of the first two decades of this century. It is a long way from Portland, Oregon, where Reed was born in 1887 to a prosperous family...
...Reed's own experience, his observation of the Paterson silk strike in 1913, that radicalized him. He saw the lengths to which state and capital would go to crush any expression of solidarity among the workers. The lesson was reiterated a year later for Reed by the state militia's massacre of striking coal miners in Ludlow, Colorado...
...Newark, N.J. 39. Paterson, N.J.* 40. Springfield, Mass.* 41. Youngstown, Ohio* 42. Detroit 43. Richmond 44. Fort Worth 45. Atlanta 46. Fort Lauderdale, Fla.* 47. Miami 48. Nashville, Tenn.* 49. Pittsburgh 50. Allentown, Pa.* 51. St. Louis* 52. Gary, Ind.* 53. Louisville* 54. Providence* 55. Baltimore...
...WILLIAM PATERSON COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY