“How a pastor and a seamstress gave us Labor Day”

Vikki Ortiz Healy for the Tribune:

When two Pullman residents, the Rev. William Cowardine and Jennie Curtis, a seamstress, brought the unfair work conditions to the attention of the American Railway Union in 1894, it prompted a nationwide shutdown of railways that begged action from then-President Grover Cleveland.

(h/t Lindsay Greer)