Velma Hopkins
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Velma Hopkins
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Velma Hopkins was an American labor rights activist. In 1943 she helped organize a strike against R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, which attracted over 10,000 participants from Winston-Salem, North Carolina and led to the founding of the only union to be formed by Reynolds Tobacco employees. Hopkins was a leader in Local 22, a racially integrated union led primarily by Black women. Her efforts in fighting for higher pay and fair treatment made her a leader within the African American community of
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American labor organizer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velma_Hopkins
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2023-07-17T08:45:13Z
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