Sofia Lesnewski

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Sofia Lesnewski is a senior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, studying English and comparative literature, Spanish, and social and economic justice. She previously covered higher education, diversity, and representation at The Daily Tar Heel, and she currently serves as editor of The Journal of Women and Criminal Justice, a national publication for justice-involved women and advocates.

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'No end of trouble': The radical organizing of Durham's Jewish cigarette rollers

By Sofia Lesnewski

September 1, 2022 - When North Carolina tobacco companies began manufacturing cigarettes in the 1880s, they needed skilled rollers, so they turned to Jewish immigrants on strike at cigarette factories in New York City. The bosses thought the workers wouldn't dare organize in the union-hostile South, but they were proven wrong.

Sofia Lesnewski

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Articles by Sofia

'No end of trouble': The radical organizing of Durham's Jewish cigarette rollers

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