The text below is not by me but it does concern LA and Texas history so I thought some on here might find it of interest.
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Hello Friends and Comrades--

Several months ago I lamented how our socialist history was slowly being lost to time.

All of us, as socialist historians of one form or fashion, have slowly been working to delay this oblivion through our research and studies. I am attempting to put another tool to use in this regard.

Many of the old socialists of the past do not have any memorials in their honor. Such is the case of William Covington Hall, the Wobbly labor organizer who led the East Texas Lumber Workers in their strike at Grabow, Lousianna, in 1912. Covington Hall was a writer, poet, labor organizer, socialist, one of the militant socialists of his generation.

He died in obscurity in 1952 at the age of 81, un-remembered. He is buried in the Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans, but there is no marker for him.

The management of the privately-owned Metairie Cemetery has granted us permission to place a marker for Covington Hall. I have solicited the lowest bid for that marker and it is now a question of raising the funds for a the manufacture and installation of a granite marker at the location of Covington Hall’s tomb.

I have set up one of those “GoFundMe” accounts for the purpose of raising the needed amount to set a marker for Covington Hall.

http://gofundme.com/help-set-a-marker-for-covington-hal

I thought socialism was the kind of US history it's okay to erase.

I kid. This is interesting, thanks for pointing it out!

(11-22-2018 11:14 AM)Pounce FTW Wrote:  I thought socialism was the kind of US history it's okay to erase.

I kid. This is interesting, thanks for pointing it out!

Not many democratic socialists care too much about college athletics I suppose. I am sure most see it as a distraction from more important problems. And to a large case that is true, but I also like the quote, I think from Rosa Luxemborg, about not wanting to be a part of revolution that did not allow dancing.

I can vouchsafe for at least one that enjoys Great5 sports and App State in particular, and that would of course be me. And I also don't care much for the Prig5 conferences which is a bit of my politics shining through in how they run a near monopoly of the power and money.

The money was raised for both the marker and installation for what it was worth.