February 22 -- SOURCE: Union
Communications Services, Inc.
Representatives of the Knights of
Labor and the United Mine Workers meet in St. Louis with 20 other
organizations to plan the founding convention of the People’s Party.
Objectives: end political corruption, spread
the wealth, and combat the oppression of the rights of workers and farmers - 1892
Albert Shanker dies at age 68. He served as president of New York
City’s United Federation of Teachers from 1964 to 1984 and of the
American Federation of Teachers from 1974 to 1997 - 1997
Working Class Heroes
February 22 -- via --
www.newsinhistory.com Tennessee adopts a new constitution abolishing slavery. 1865 ~De
On Jan. 13, 1865, Military Governor Andrew Johnson of Tennessee (who
became Lincoln’s vice president on March 4) sent a message to President
Lincoln announcing that a state convention of more than 500 delegates
had adopted an amendment to the state constitution forever abolishing
slavery in Tennessee. Johnson remarked in his message: “Thank God that
the tyrant’s rod has been broken.”
The 500 delegates passed the following two amendments “without a single dissenting voice”:
Sec. 1. That Slavery, and involuntary servitude, except as a punishment
for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, are hereby
forever abolished and prohibited throughout the State.
Sec. 2. The Legislature shall make no law recognizing the right of property in man.
The amendments became law on Feb. 22 when approved by a vote of the state’s citizens.
The convention had actually been called to plan a constitutional
convention for later in the year, but the delegates became so enthused
for a constitutional amendment banning slavery that they decided to take
action immediately, and the amendment passed unanimously.
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