What You Need To Know A former cigar factory is being converted into a boutique hotel The hotel, once complete, will be 70 rooms in total While the current owner hasn't specified how much the ...

This year, I’m offering another anniversary to celebrate this month: The Charleston Cigar Factory Strike, which ended in victory on April 1, 1946, represents the best of Southern heritage. In October ...

Also this week, the administration designated five new National Historic Landmarks with an emphasis on women’s history: the Charleston Cigar Factory in Charleston, South Carolina; the Furies ...

The infamous Charleston Cigar Factory Strike began on Oct. 22, 1945 when more than 1,000 workers walked off their jobs. It lasted for five months and ended April 1, 1946.

Charleston Cigar Factory, the site of a months-long strike in 1945 and 1946 led by Black women workers, has being recognized as a National Historic Landmark, ...

The White House officially designated the Charleston Cigar Factory on East Bay as a national historic landmark. The Department of the Interior's highest recognition of historical, architectural ...

These include the Charleston Cigar Factory in South Carolina, the site of a 1945 strike organized by Black women; the Boulder County Courthouse in Colorado, which was a major location in the fight ...

VIDEO: Charleston's Cigar Factory named national historic landmark The United States Department of the Interior recognized 19 landmarks nationwide, including a former factory building in downtown ...

WASHINGTON (WCSC) - The United States Department of the Interior recognized 19 landmarks nationwide, including a former factory building in downtown Charleston. The former Cigar Factory, located at ...

A historical marker erected to honor the strike states that initially, 1,2000 out of 1,4000 Charleston factory employees, the largest American Cigar factory, walked out to join the protests.

The building was pivotal in Southern labor activism during the mid-20th century as African-American workers at the Charleston Cigar Factory, who were also Food, Tobacco and Allied Workers union ...

Haaland on Monday also announced five new national historic landmarks recognizing women’s contributions to American history: the Charleston Cigar Factory in Charleston, South Carolina; the ...