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Why this story today: Anna Clemenc was six feet two and carried a flag taller than she was. For nine months in 1913 she marched it through Calumet every morning while the Copper Country strike ground on around her. The strike is the story most people know. Big Annie is the one worth telling, and How Big Annie Became the Flag-Carrying Face of Calumet’s 1913 Copper Strike leads today.
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Anna "Big Annie" Clemenc marched daily with an American flag during the nine-month Copper Country strike. Her courage made her one of Michigan labor history's defining…
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