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  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Joe_Hill_(activist)Joe Hill (activist) - Wikipedia

    Joe Hill (October 7, 1879 – November 19, 1915), born Joel Emmanuel Hägglund and also known as Joseph Hillström, [1] was a Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, familiarly called the "Wobblies"). [2] A native Swedish speaker, he learned English during the early 1900s, while ...

  3. www.britannica.com › biography › Joe-HillJoe Hill | Folk singer, Labor activist, Union leader | Britannica

    November 19, 1915, Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S. (aged 36) Joe Hill (born October 7, 1879, Gävle, Sweden—died November 19, 1915, Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.) was a Swedish-born American songwriter and organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW); his execution for an alleged robbery-murder made him a martyr and folk hero in the ...

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  4. www.history.com › this-day-in-history › singingLabor activist and singer Joe Hill sentenced to death

    Nov 16, 2009 · Labor activist and singer Joe Hill sentenced to death. Convicted of murder on meager evidence, the singing Wobbly Joe Hill is sentenced to be executed in Utah. A native of Sweden who immigrated to ...

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  6. www.nytimes.com › 2011/08/27 › usOld Letter Sheds New Light on Joe Hill Murder Case - The New ...

    Aug 27, 2011 · Kevin Moloney for The New York Times. At Woodstock, Joan Baez sang a famous folk ballad celebrating Joe Hill, the itinerant miner, songwriter and union activist who was executed by a Utah firing ...

  7. www.amazon.com › Man-Who-Never-Died-American › dpThe Man Who Never Died: The Life, Times, and Legacy of Joe ...

    Aug 21, 2012 · Joe Hill was a labour activist who was charged with murder, likely falsely, and executed in 1915 - he was believed by many to have been martyred and the first work of art to emerge in tribute was the c. 1930 Alfred Hayes poem I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night.

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  8. www.youtube.com › watchRemembering Joe Hill - YouTube

    On November 19th, 2011, International Mens Day, and the anniversary of the death of songwriter and labour activist, Joe Hill, recall his life and the words ...

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  9. local.sltrib.com › charts › joehillWho was Joe Hill? - The Salt Lake Tribune

    Joe Hill House mural. This mural depicting the execution of Joe Hill was on one of the walls inside the Joe Hill Hospitality House, a homeless shelter in Salt Lake City run by a social activist named Ammon Hennacy in the 1960s and '70s. Photo courtesy Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah.

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