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By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

After months of urging state officials to restore a historical marker paying tribute to labor activist Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, advocates have escalated their battle by taking their fight to the courts.Arnie Alpert and Mary Lee Sargent, the two...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

Children eating stale bread and lard in the streets, mill workers with missing fingers, poor families without electricity or clean water were a few of the things that Elizabeth Gurley Flynn saw when she traveled to mill towns throughout the...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

Through the mouths of civil rights and labor activists like Arnie Alpert, the history of the “Rebel Girl” born in Concord lives on even if a state historical marker for her has come down. On Thursday at 7 p.m., Alpert will discuss the lifelong work of...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

Replicas of a historical marker for a communist-affiliated labor activist are popping up in yards around Concord after the original was removed by the state in May, two weeks after its installation.To protest the state’s decision to remove the sign...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

Local petitioners fighting for the state to preserve and reinstate a controversial historical marker commemorating a communist-affiliated labor activist are seeking legal council to explore their options to have the marker reinstalled. Following the...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

A historical marker in Concord commemorating the birthplace of labor activist and feminist Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was removed Monday two weeks after it was unveiled. Born in Concord in 1890, Gurley Flynn became prominent as a labor leader, feminist...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

The two civil libertarians who petitioned for a historical marker in Concord to mark the birthplace of labor activists Elizabeth Gurley Flynn wrote to state officials Thursday urging them to reject calls for the placard’s removal.Gurley Flynn was a...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

Concord City Councilors have been asked to weigh in on the removal of a historical marker in Concord commemorating the birthplace of labor activist and feminist Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, who chaired the Communist Party of the United States later in...