On July 17, 1936, the Nazi-backed Spanish General Federico Franco led an armed rebellion against the Spanish government. It began a bloody civil war that would last for years. 

Thousands of people left their homes and traveled to Spain to stand up and defend its democratically elected government against Franco and fascism. Roughly 35,000 people from more than 50 countries would join the Spanish International Brigade. Of those internacionalistas, roughly 3,000 men and women came from the United States and volunteered to fight. They founded the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. 

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Resources
Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives
Fighting Fascism: The Americans–Women and Men–Who Fought in the Spanish Civil War - Democracy Now
Homage to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
The Last Lincoln Veteran By David Rovics
With the Lincoln Brigade in Spain

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