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The Haymarket affair, also known as the Haymarket massacre, the Haymarket riot, the Haymarket Square riot, or the Haymarket Incident, was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Haymarket Square [1] is a commercial area on the Near West Side [2] of Chicago at Randolph Street and Des Plaines Street [3] just east of Halsted Street, [4] known primarily for the protest and bombing that occurred on May 4, 1886. [5] [6] It was a wide, [7] busy commercial food produce market [8] [9] for much of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The Haymarket statue was vandalized with black paint on May 4, 1968, the 82nd anniversary of the Haymarket affair, following a confrontation between police and demonstrators at a protest against the Vietnam War. [5] On October 6, 1969, shortly before the "Days of Rage" protests, the statue was destroyed when a bomb was placed between its legs.
The Haymarket Martyrs' Monument is a funeral monument and sculpture located at Forest Home Cemetery in Forest Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.Dedicated in 1893, it commemorates the defendants involved in labor unrest who were blamed, convicted, and executed for the still unsolved bombing during the Haymarket Affair (1886).
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In 1886 the Haymarket affair (also known as the Haymarket massacre or Haymarket riot) was a protest rally and subsequent violence on May 4 at the Haymarket Square [15] in Chicago. The rally supported striking workers. When police began to disperse the public meeting, an unknown person threw a dynamite bomb into their midst.
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"Review of Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement, and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America". The Journal of American History. 94 (1): 302–303. doi:10.2307/25094877. ISSN 0021-8723. JSTOR 25094877. Guttenplan, D. D. (2009). "A Judicious Dose of Hemp: the Long Shadow of the Haymarket Bombing".