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Protest at Piedmont Leaf Tobacco Company, 1946.

Protest at Piedmont Leaf Tobacco Company, 1946.

Protest at Piedmont Leaf Tobacco Company, 1946. Philip Koritz, head of Local 22 United Tobacco Workers union, being arrested by Winston-Salem police Captain C.M. Stutts (left) and Patrolman H. E. Kelly (right).

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  1. My father, Philip Koritz, is still going strong at 93 years of age. He and my mother, Sara Sue Koritz, taught me to love and fight for truth and justice, a legacy that I have tried to share and pass on to my own family and the family of man.

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