Commemorating the life and legacy of labor and community organizer, Mother Jones, the museum named in her honor is opened at the end of April.
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Commemorating the life and legacy of labor and community organizer, Mother Jones, the museum named in her honor is opened at the end of April.
A roundup of short news of women including the death of Geraldine Blankenship, an activist in the 1936-37 Flint, Mich., sit-down strike against General Motors; the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation; and the opening of a Mother Jones Museum in Mt. Olive, Ill., in June 2015.