Today in #LaborHistory 8/14/1846: Henry David #Thoreau jailed for refusing to pay taxes to protest Mexican-American War. Also wrote “Walden” & “Civil Disobedience.” Influenced generations of activists & writers, incl #Gandhi, #MartinLutherKing, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Upton Sinclair & Martin Buber.
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Portrait photograph from a ninth-plate daguerreotype of Henry David Thoreau in 1856. By B. D. Maxham - National Portrait Gallery, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=72850880