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[Photograph 2012.201.B0960B.0700]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "OKC Mayor Patience Latting, lower right, watches with folded hands as city employees, members of the city council and others count police badges turned in today as officers struck the city. Police have been involved in a wage dispute with Oklahoma City officials."
Date: October 23, 1975
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1267.0309]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Strikers picketing Oklahoma's only copper mine were in their third day of protest Friday. More than 80 members of the Cement, Lime and Gysum Workers, Local 467, left their jobs when contract negotiations broke down."
Date: December 1, 1972
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1209.0054]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Striking American Airlines flight attendants walk the picket line Friday at Will rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City on the second day of a nationwide strike against the giant air carrier."
Date: November 19, 1993
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1209.0059]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "American Airlines customers are confronted Thursday with a list of canceled flights at Will Rogers World Airport after Striking flight attendants forced travelers to make alternate plans."
Date: November 18, 1993
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0975.0225]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "OKC school teachers Uearlene Howard, Jerry Brooks and Glenda Galebach man picket lines in front of Harding Middle School as the state's first teachers' strike began in earnest Wednesday."
Date: August 22, 1979
Creator: Klock, Roger
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0975.0224]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Teachers read, drink coffee and chat to keep themselves occupied during shifts on the picket lines at Harding Middle School Wednesday."
Date: August 22, 1979
Creator: Klock, Roger
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Painted Red: The Coal Strike of 1919

Description: Article describes the impact of the Coal Miners' Strike of 1919 on U.S. government officials, and how the Red Scare that swept the nation in the wake of World War I and the rise of the Soviet Union exacerbated the situation.
Date: Summer 1997
Creator: Sewell, Steven L.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The Life of Littleton Horace Davis: Pistol Packin' Preacher and Railroad Man

Description: Article covers the life of minister, farmer, rail car inspector, and community leader L. H. Davis. Frank W. Davis relates the contributions his grandfather made, including building the first two-story house in Francis, Oklahoma, the founding of the Francis Methodist Episcopal Church, and acquiring a reputation as a fearless man even during the dangerous railroad strikes of 1922.
Date: Winter 2001
Creator: Davis, Frank W.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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