Early Photos of Troy (New York) From the 1860s

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Laundry was every more of a chore 150 years ago. Hear from Hope McCaffrey from our Center for Women’s History. #DidYouKnow: Laundry work spurred some of the first-known collective action among women workers. In 1864, Kate Mullany organized the largely Irish immigrant female laundry workers for a successful six-day strike in Troy, New York. And in 1866, in Jacksonville, Mississippi, the city’s washerwomen—all of whom were African American—organized to standardize their wages. #LearnOnTikTok #muse