This historian called a song composed by I. G. Blanchard the most popular labor song until “Solidarity Forever” in his compendium American Labor Songs of the Nineteenth Century. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this historian who collected five volumes of Frederick Douglass’s writings. His nephew is the lead author of the Give Me Liberty! high school textbook and examined Abraham Lincoln’s views on slavery in another book.
ANSWER: Philip S. Foner [or Philip Sheldon Foner] (His nephew is Eric Foner, who wrote The Fiery Trial.)
[10e] Foner titled a chapter of his book for this amount of time and the Haymarket Affair. Three segments of this amount of time each were reserved for work, rest, and “what we will” according to Blanchard’s song.
ANSWER: eight hours [or the eight-hour day]
[10h] Philip and his brother Jack were among staff fired from the City College of New York in 1941 for left-wing politics as a result of this state investigative committee modeled in the veins of the national Fish Committee.
ANSWER: Rapp-Coudert Committee [or Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate the Educational System of the State of New York]
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