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Look at the images and read the history of the 1910 bombing and fire at the Los Angeles Times building on the website of the Los Angeles Fire Department (http://www.latimesbomb.com/). What was unusual about Clarence Darrow's handling of the case? Read more about him at http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/DARESY.HTM. What do you learn here about the outcome of his legal activity related to the 1910 bombing of the Times building?
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Monuments erected to commemorate U.S. labor heritage are charted by state and city and described briefly on the useful website created by the Labor Heritage Organization in Washington, D.C.: http://www.laborheritage.org/?p=247. In California Labor Landmarks, find out what labor activity is the oldest to be recognized by a San Francisco monument. What is the most recent? Where is the statue of Andrew Furuseth located? What might this chart suggest about labor support in California's history?





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