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This week, Scott and Aaron mark International Workers’ Day – celebrated everywhere except the US, where it began. Also: famed labor leader Mother Jones, pioneering journalist Nellie Bly, civil rights organizer Septima Clark, and the kid whose college paper wound up sparking a movement that led to the 27th Amendment. (Aaron still thinks he probably deserved the bad grade he originally got, though.)

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