Today in Labor History January 6, 1937: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade formed to fight fascism in the Spanish Civil War. Roughly 4,000 American men and women fought for the Republicans in violation of U.S. law. Nearly 2,000 of them died of wounds or disease. One of the casualties was Oliver Law, a communist, and the first black man known to have commanded white U.S. troops. He led the Tom Mooney Machine-Gun Company, named for labor organizer Tom Mooney, who spent years in prison on trumped up charges related to the San Francisco Preparedness Day bombing.

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Oliver Law - WW1 veteran, active Chicago anti-fascist in the 1930s, Lincoln Battalion volunteer during the Spanish Civil War, the 1st black man to command American troops. Killed in the Battle of Brunete on July 9, 1937.
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