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Scope and Content of the Series From the Series: During the 1940s, Mike H. Ross worked with the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers and then as an International Representative for the United Furniture Workers of America - Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and part of the CIO's "Operation Dixie". Operation Dixie was a movement during the 1940s by the CIO to organize southern labor into unions. The South was not labor-friendly during this time, especially to organizations or people who wanted to do away with Jim...

Scope and Content of the Series From the Series: By 1948, many working Americans had become dissatisfied with American ideas of economics and politics. They decided that they deserved better pay and wanted equality between the races (no more Jim Crow), more peaceful relations with the Soviet Union, and better living conditions all around. These people joined together to form a third party in the 1948 elections, the Progressive Party. Henry A. Wallace ran for president on this ticket, and Mike H. Ross ran for United States Congress in North...