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The Killing Floor is a 1984 American made-for-television drama film directed by Bill Duke which highlights the plights of workers fighting to build an interracial labor union in the meatpacking industry in the years leading up to the Chicago race riot of 1919. [1]
Duke was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, the son of Ethel Louise (née Douglas) and William Henry Duke Sr. [5] [6] He attended Franklin D. Roosevelt High School in Hyde Park [7] and later received his first instruction in the performing arts and in creative writing at Dutchess Community College in Poughkeepsie. [7]
Cyrus Hall McCormick Sr., founder of the McCormick business dynasty. Robert McCormick Jr. (1780–1846) was an American inventor who lived in rural Virginia. [1] His maternal grandparents were Scottish immigrants, George Sanderson and Catharine (née Ross) Sanderson, and paternal grandparents were Thomas (1702–1762) and Elizabeth (née Carruth) McCormick, Presbyterian immigrants born in ...
William Hale Thompson (May 14, 1869 – March 19, 1944) was an American politician who served as mayor of Chicago from 1915 to 1923 and again from 1927 to 1931. Known as " Big Bill ", [ 1 ] he is the most recent Republican to have served as mayor of Chicago .
Theurrer-Wrigley House, also known as the Wrigley Mansion, is a historic building located in the Lincoln Park area of Chicago, United States.The Italian Renaissance-style mansion was commissioned by Joseph Theurer, then-owner of the Schoenhofen Brewing Company, and purchased in 1911 by Chicago's Wrigley family.
William C. Watson (October 5, 1938 – November 5, 1997) was an American actor. [1] Career. Born in Chicago, ... Files, M*A*S*H, The Dukes of Hazzard ...
The Duke of Suffolk is a courtier, cynical about the King's relationship with Anne Bullen, in Henry VIII. The Duke of Suffolk (William de la Pole) is a manipulative character, loved by Queen Margaret, in Henry VI, Part 1 and Henry VI, Part 2. The Duke of Surrey accuses Aumerle of plotting Woodstock's death in Richard II.
African American State Senator Richard H. Newhouse Jr. was the first black candidate on the ballot in a Chicago mayoral election. [6] [7] Originally, four black candidates had announced they would challenge Daley. However, candidates such as criminal lawyer E. Duke McNeil dropped-out to back Newhouse. [8]