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Smithsonian: Atlanta washerwomen strike

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Engraving of the 1881 International Cotton Exposition in Atlanta

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When washerwomen used a world's fair as leverage

In 1881, Black laundresses organized for better pay as Atlanta prepared to welcome the world.

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