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White workers go on a "hate strike" at the Packard Plant, protesting the promotion of Black workers.

Date: 1943

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Twenty-five thousand white workers go on strike purely to prevent Black workers from being promoted. Similar strikes will occur in the mass transit industry in Philadelphia, steel plants in Baltimore, and shipyards in Alabama. These strikes will later be called "hate strikes."