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J.P. Stevens & Co Milledgeville Plant in Georgia
The National Association of Letter Carriers achieved equalization of wages for all letter carriers, meaning city delivery carriers began receiving the same wages regardless of the size of the community in which they worked. – 1949
After twenty years of virulent anti-unionism, the J.P. Stevens & Company finally signed its first-ever contract with the Amalgamated Clothing & Textile Workers Union. The collective bargaining agreement covered more than 3,000 workers in ten plants in the Carolinas and Alabama. – 1980
Hopelessly trapped at Yorktown, Virginia, British General Lord Cornwallis surrenders 8,000 British soldiers and seamen to a larger Franco-American force, effectively bringing an end to the American Revolution. - 1781
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