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- ... that Eva Davis led a wildcat strike against Church's Chicken in Atlanta in 1972?
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- Wood, Augustus (2025). Class Warfare in Black Atlanta: Grassroots Struggles, Power, and Repression Under Gentrification. ISBN 9781469685694 – via Perlego.
Davis channeled East Lake Meadows' anger in early May 1972, when she gathered a dozen Black East Lake Meadows women to picket a Church's Chicken restaurant on Second Avenue. [...] the Church's wildcat strike became a Black working-class symbol for citywide resistance and class solidarity
- Wood, Augustus (2025). Class Warfare in Black Atlanta: Grassroots Struggles, Power, and Repression Under Gentrification. ISBN 9781469685694 – via Perlego.
- Candy (May 8, 1972). "Chickenshit". The Great Speckled Bird. Vol. 5, no. 18. p. 7. JSTOR community.28037762.
Don't buy your picnic, snack, lunch, or dinner from Church's Friend Chicken. Black women from East Lake Meadows led by Eva Davis are picketing the fried chicken stores.
- Candy (May 8, 1972). "Chickenshit". The Great Speckled Bird. Vol. 5, no. 18. p. 7. JSTOR community.28037762.
- The picketing spread to different locations in Atlanta, forcing some locations to close: "Church's closes stores, negotiations under way". The Atlanta Voice. Vol. 7, no. 20. May 13, 1972. p. 1.
— Chao Garden 🌱 ~ say hello 21:17, 23 September 2026 (UTC).
– Everything checks out. Chao Garden, please, take a look at the birth year in the lede and the birth year in the categories. Just that. ;-) GTG. CoryGlee 00:04, 24 September 2026 (UTC)
- @CoryGlee: Oh whoa, thank you for pointing that out. I'm not sure how I messed that up so badly! Fixed now. (She died in 2012 at age 76.) — Chao Garden 🌱 ~ say hello 00:21, 24 September 2026 (UTC)
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