On this day, August 26, 1919

American union organizer and widowed mother, Fannie Sellins was shot and killed while defending a picketing coal miner from being beaten by company guards.  Herself a garment worker, Sellins had earned a reputation as an effective labor organizer, and had been assigned to direct that coal mining strike in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  Sellins who mainly organized garment workers and coal miners, she took care of and galvanized the poor, the sick, children, and mothers.  She was as infamous with coal mining companies as she was respected by the people she fought for.  Four years after her death, the two deputies accused of her murder were acquitted.  I guess some murders just aren't taken as seriously as other murders.