The text below is not by me but it does concern LA and Texas history so I thought some on here might find it of interest.
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Hello Friends and Comrades--
Several months ago I lamented how our socialist history was slowly being lost to time.
All of us, as socialist historians of one form or fashion, have slowly been working to delay this oblivion through our research and studies. I am attempting to put another tool to use in this regard.
Many of the old socialists of the past do not have any memorials in their honor. Such is the case of William Covington Hall, the Wobbly labor organizer who led the East Texas Lumber Workers in their strike at Grabow, Lousianna, in 1912. Covington Hall was a writer, poet, labor organizer, socialist, one of the militant socialists of his generation.
He died in obscurity in 1952 at the age of 81, un-remembered. He is buried in the Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans, but there is no marker for him.
The management of the privately-owned Metairie Cemetery has granted us permission to place a marker for Covington Hall. I have solicited the lowest bid for that marker and it is now a question of raising the funds for a the manufacture and installation of a granite marker at the location of Covington Hall’s tomb.
I have set up one of those “GoFundMe” accounts for the purpose of raising the needed amount to set a marker for Covington Hall.
http://gofundme.com/help-set-a-marker-for-covington-hal