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The Long Arc: Progressive History page 2 of 2
The Homestead Strike of 1892 and the Pinkerton Barges on the Monongahela In July 1892 barges of armed Pinkerton agents came up the Monongahela to break a steel union. The battle at Homestead kept American steel nonunion for forty-five years. The Omaha Platform of 1892 and the Reforms It Wrote for the Next Fifty Years A third party of indebted farmers met in Omaha on July 4, 1892, lost the election, and still wrote the income tax, direct election of senators and more into law. The Social Security Act at Ninety and the Workers It First Left Out Social Security began by leaving out farm and domestic workers, which shut out most Black workers in the South. How that happened, how it was fixed, and who is still left out. What the Great Society Actually Built and Which Parts Still Stand An inventory of what Lyndon Johnson's Great Society created in a few years in the 1960s, from Medicare to Head Start and school aid, and which of those programs are still standing sixty years on.