Download or read book The Chicago Haymarket Affair written by Joseph Anthony Rulli and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history and guide presents the significant sites and events of the Haymarket Square riot, a major turning point in the fight for workers’ rights. On May 4th, 1886, a bomb exploded during a labor demonstration near Haymarket Square in Chicago. The ensuing gunfire and chaos brought a grisly end to what began as peaceful support for an eight-hour workday. With both officers and civilians dead, newspapers proclaimed an anarchist conspiracy. The investigation led to the trial and execution of rally organizers. The incident also drew irrevocable attention to debates about workers’ rights and the role of law enforcement that continues today. In this guide to the key moments and sites of one of Chicago’s most confusing and chaotic events, author Joseph Anthony Rulli aims to establish a clearer understanding of its historical significance.
Download or read book The Haymarket Affair Chicago 1886 written by Corinne J. Naden and published by Franklin Watts. This book was released on 1968 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the causes, events, and far-reaching consequences of the brief but deadly encounter between workers and police in Chicago's Haymarket Square in 1886.
Download or read book Death in the Haymarket written by James Green and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-03-13 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of whom eventually died. A wave of mass hysteria swept the country, leading to a sensational trial, that culminated in four controversial executions, and dealt a blow to the labor movement from which it would take decades to recover. Historian James Green recounts the rise of the first great labor movement in the wake of the Civil War and brings to life an epic twenty-year struggle for the eight-hour workday. Blending a gripping narrative, outsized characters and a panoramic portrait of a major social movement, Death in the Haymarket is an important addition to the history of American capitalism and a moving story about the class tensions at the heart of Gilded Age America.
Download or read book The Haymarket Affair written by Charles River Editors and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-25 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts of the Haymarket Affair and trials *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents "That night I could not sleep. Again I lived through the events of 1887. Twenty-one months had passed since the Black Friday of November 11, when the Chicago men had suffered their martyrdom, yet every detail stood out clear before my vision and affected me as if it had happened but yesterday. My sister Helena and I had become interested in the fate of the men during the period of their trial. The reports in the Rochester newspapers irritated, confused, and upset us by their evident prejudice. The violence of the press, the bitter denunciation of the accused, the attacks on all foreigners, turned our sympathies to the Haymarket victims." - Emma Goldman Although it's no longer well known as a flashpoint, few things were as controversial during the late 19th century as the Haymarket Affair. Depending on one's perspective, the riots and the violence that ensued were the result of anarchist terrorists attacking law enforcement authorities with a homemade bomb that was detonated during a large public event, killing a police officer and wounding several more. Others who were more sympathetic to the plight of the people protesting for better working conditions that night in Haymarket Square in Chicago on May 4, 1886 portray it as a peaceful rally that was marred by a heavy handed response attempting to disperse the protesters. What is clear is that the moments following the explosion were characterized by confusion and bedlam, as some people ran away and others ran toward the site. By the time the shooting was done, nearly a dozen lay dead, including a number of police officers, and makeshift hospitals were soon overwhelmed. Citizens in the area began to cry out for justice, and police detectives poured through the city, making arrests and questioning thousands. As word spread about the attack, cities around the country went on high alert, concerned that they could be next. It was soon determined that a traditionally anti-American group was responsible for the attack, and many threatened mob violence against anyone who looked like they might be involved with the group. The press egged on those in the public with cries for revenge and justice. Eventually, the suspected perpetrators' trial began, a sensational event followed closely by many across the nation. Tensions ran high as those involved were prosecuted and defended, and when the jury convicted 8 anarchists of conspiracy and some of them were sentenced to death, many rejoiced while others cried out that Lady Justice had miscarried the case. Lost amidst the violence was the fact that the protests that culminated with the Haymarket Affair had come in response to previous labor strikes across the country, and controversial police shootings of some workers on strike, which took on a discriminatory undertone because many of the laborers were immigrants facing poor working conditions. It was against this backdrop that political anarchists also got involved, which muddled things and ultimately brought blowback against immigrant communities after the Haymarket Affair. More importantly, workers and those advocating on their behalf were galvanized by the events to push for what they considered much needed reforms, many of which would come over the next few decades. As professor William J. Adelman put it, "No single event has influenced the history of labor in Illinois, the United States, and even the world, more than the Chicago Haymarket Affair. It began with a rally on May 4, 1886, but the consequences are still being felt today." Chicago has since commemorated both the workers and the police with various memorials and plaques.
Download or read book The History of the Haymarket Affair written by Henry David and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Story of the Haymarket Riot written by Charnan Simon and published by Children's Press(CT). This book was released on 1988 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the riot in Haymarket Square, Chicago, in 1886, that sparked antiunion sentiment.
Download or read book Strangled Voices written by Irving Werstein and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the Chicago Haymarket Affair of 1886, during which four men allegedly planted a bomb which killed a policeman and were later hanged for murder.
Download or read book Haymarket Revisited written by William Adelman and published by Illinois Labor History Society.. This book was released on 1976 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Haymarket Affair Chicago 1886 written by Corinne J. Naden and published by Franklin Watts. This book was released on 1968-09 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Chicago Anarchists and the Haymarket Massacre written by Fremont O. Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Haymarket Tragedy written by Paul Avrich and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first paperback edition of a moving appraisal of the infamous Haymarket bombing (May 1886) and the trial that followed it--a trial that was a cause célèbre in the 1880s and that has since been recognized as one of the most unjust in the annals of American jurisprudence. Paul Avrich shows how eight anarchists who were blamed for the bombing at a workers' meeting near Chicago's Haymarket Square became the focus of a variety of passionately waged struggles.
Download or read book The Haymarket Trial written by Albert Parsons and published by . This book was released on 2011-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the trial record. The testimony of selected prosecution and defense witnesses, defendant statements to the court, the appeal decision, and the governor's pardon.
Download or read book The Chicago Haymarket Riot written by Bernard R. Kogan and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains primary sources on the Haymarket Square Riot, Chicago, 1886 as well as the Trial.
Download or read book The Haymarket Affair written by Robert W. Glenn and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1993-04-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides bibliographic control over the extensive literature on the Haymarket Riot. It lists over 1,500 primary and secondary documents and provides descriptive annotations for most entries. It also includes subject and author indexes and thorough cross-references. The entries are organized under four main headings: (1) Context, which includes background material on labor and industry, the history and theory of anarchism, the history of Chicago, and biographical material on the individuals involved; (2) History, which includes the principal secondary writings on the Riot and the documents from the legal proceedings; (3) Argument, which includes a chronological arrangement of protest and polemical literature on various Haymarket issues, notices of commemorative meetings and speeches, and writings devoted to the central issue of the freedom of expression and assembly; and (4) Imagination, which includes sections on fiction, drama, poetry, and art inspired by Haymarket.
Download or read book The Haymarket Conspiracy written by Timothy Messer-Kruse and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Conspiracy -- 2. From Red to Black -- 3. The Black International -- 4. Dynamite -- 5. Anarchists, Trade Unions, and the Eight-Hour Workday -- 6. From Eight Hours to Revolution -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index.
Download or read book Urban Protestant Reactions to the Chicago Haymarket Affair 1886 1893 written by Lewis Frederick Wheelock and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the Haymarket Affair written by Henry David and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
