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Honoring the labor and power of ?Black Rosie? Ruth ?Ruthie? Wilson, whose critical industrial work at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, along with six hundred thousand other Black Rosies, helped win World War II and whose labors and wages served as the launching pad of the Black middle class.