{"id":139,"date":"2025-11-25T03:09:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T03:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/jasonlnewton\/?page_id=139"},"modified":"2025-11-25T03:09:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T03:09:52","slug":"lets-stand-together-workers-and-have-a-union-here-north-charlotte-labor-history-mural","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/jasonlnewton\/lets-stand-together-workers-and-have-a-union-here-north-charlotte-labor-history-mural\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Let\u2019s Stand Together, Workers, and Have a Union Here\u201d: North Charlotte Labor History Mural"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former UNC Charlotte history graduate student David Murphy and myself were recently awarded a $17,000 grant to fund the creation of a mural on the history of North Charlotte textile workers and their labor actions between 1919 and 1934. The work will be titled &#8220;Let\u2019s Stand Together, Workers, and Have a Union Here\u201d which was the last line of the song \u201cMill Mother&#8217;s Lament,&#8221; a song written and performed by Ella May Wiggins, a Gastonia, NC mill worker and labor activist who was gunned down by anti-labor vigilantes in 1929. There are currently no public artistic representations of these Charlotte strikes in the NoDa (North Davidson) arts district neighborhood where the strikes took place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are currently looking for muralist to complete the work. You can find the full request for proposals <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noda.org\/nodarioty#:~:text=%22Let%27s%20Stand%20Together%22%20Mural\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/jasonlnewton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1324\/2025\/11\/MURALIST-NEEDED_YARDSIGN_DRAFT_1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/jasonlnewton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1324\/2025\/11\/MURALIST-NEEDED_YARDSIGN_DRAFT_1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/jasonlnewton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1324\/2025\/11\/MURALIST-NEEDED_YARDSIGN_DRAFT_1-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/jasonlnewton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1324\/2025\/11\/MURALIST-NEEDED_YARDSIGN_DRAFT_1-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/jasonlnewton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1324\/2025\/11\/MURALIST-NEEDED_YARDSIGN_DRAFT_1-1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former UNC Charlotte history graduate student David Murphy and myself were recently awarded a $17,000 grant to fund the creation of a mural on the history of North Charlotte textile workers and their labor actions between 1919 and 1934. The work will be titled &#8220;Let\u2019s Stand Together, Workers, and Have a Union Here\u201d which was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4278,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-139","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/jasonlnewton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/jasonlnewton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/jasonlnewton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/jasonlnewton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4278"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/jasonlnewton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/jasonlnewton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/jasonlnewton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/139\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/jasonlnewton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}