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May 4, 2016 · The Haymarket Riot: When a Protest Against Anti-Labor Police Brutality Turned Violent | HISTORY. Home. Topics. 19th Century. The Haymarket Riot: When a Protest Against Anti-Labor Police...
Haymarket Riot, (May 4, 1886) Violent confrontation between police and labour protesters in Chicago that dramatized the labour movement’s struggle for recognition. Radical unionists had called a mass meeting in Haymarket Square to protest police brutality in a strike action.
Sep 3, 2020 · The Haymarket Riot, or Haymarket Incident, occured on May 4, 1886 near Chicago's Haymarket Square. What began as a protest against the killing and wounding of several workers during a strike at the McCormick Reaper Works, turned into a violent riot as an unidentified person threw a bomb at the police resulting in the death of eight people.
Fighting broke out along the picket lines on May 3, and, when police intervened to restore order, several strikers were injured or killed. Union leaders called a protest meeting at Haymarket Square for the evening of May 4; but, as the meeting was breaking up, a group of anarchists took over and began to make inflammatory speeches.
The Haymarket Riot and Conspiracy of 1886 is a landmark in American social and political history. On May 4, 1886, during an open-air meeting near Haymarket Square in Chicago, someone threw a dynamite bomb into a squad of police, sparking a riot that resulted in the deaths of seven police officers and at least four rioters.
The Haymarket Affair is considered a watershed moment for American labor history, at a time when fears about the loyalties and activities of immigrants, anarchists, and laborers became linked in the minds of many Americans. On May 3, 1886, unarmed strikers clashed with police at Chicago’s McCormick Reaper Works factory.
Apr 29, 2006 · On May 4, 1886, a bomb went off in Chicago that ignited one of the nation's first red scares. The blast killed seven police officers and led to the hanging of four anarchists accused of plotting...
