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Labor's Story in Song Singer/songwriter Mike Stout and Kathleen Werner, a retired IUP professor, recently completed a tour of schools in the region as part of a grant funded through the Pennsylvania Labor Education Center/Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education entitled "Faces of Child Labor: Then and Now." The students learned about labor's past and the struggles that working class people, especially children, had to endure. The program included Crystal Eastman, Martin Delany, and the Cotton Mill Strikers of the 1830s and events that led up to the current laws restricting child labor in the U.S. Stout, from the Pittsburgh area, often addresses social issues in his music and performs during labor rallies and on picket lines. Stout and Werner visited five schools in Southwestern Pennsylvania including Propel School in Homestead, Dutch Ridge Elementary in Beaver, Mt. Gallitzin in Baden, Derry High School in Derry, and Eisenhower Elementary in Indiana during a two-week period. If you are interested in having Werner and Stout visit your area, please contact the Pennsylvania Labor Education Center at IUP.
Pictures taken during Eisenhower Elementary School Visit
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