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#OtD 5 (or 1) Dec 1903 Black Spanish civil war fighter Patrick Roosevelt was born in Long Island, NY. He joined the @iww@mastodon.social and Communist Party, and joined the fight against Franco in 1938, during which he lost his leg. He later worked as a machinist. https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e39-the-spanish-civil-war-an-introduction/