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The Hard Hat Riot occurred in New York City on May 8, 1970, when around 400 construction workers and around 800 office workers attacked around 1,000 demonstrators affiliated with the student strike of 1970.
1919 – May Day Riots, May 1, Cleveland, Ohio, Boston, Massachusetts, New York City, New York (state) (labor riots triggered by Eugene V. Debs' conviction, and American intervention in the Russian Civil War) 1919 – Red Summer, white riots against blacks
May 8, in New York City, the Hard Hat Riot occurs after a student anti-war demonstration in which workers attack them and riot for two hours. May 8. Jim Cairns, a member of the Australian parliament, leads over 100,000 people in a demonstration in Melbourne. [39] Smaller protests were also held on the same day in every state capital of ...
Jul. 25—Fifty years ago on Thursday, what some consider the most destructive riot in U.S. history, erupted at Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. July 27, 1973, started as a regular day at ...
Peter Joseph Brennan (May 24, 1918 – October 2, 1996) was an American labor activist and politician who served as United States Secretary of Labor from February 2, 1973, until March 15, 1975, in the administrations of Presidents Nixon and Ford.
It's about how those lifelong Democrats – mostly Catholic, ethnic, union – began looking for a new home in the Republican Party. And it's about how that day changed American politics, perhaps ...
It documents two protest rallies against the Vietnam War that took place in May 1970: the Hard Hat Riot on Wall Street in New York City and Kent State/Cambodia Incursion Protest in Washington, D.C. The numerous camera operators do impromptu interviews with the protesters and the spectators.
The Black Hat Club [1] in Idabel, Oklahoma, was a whites-only club operating on the Black side of town. [2] The club attracted racial incidents. [1]Late January 19, 1980, a group of local Black youths: 15-year-old Henry Lee Johnson, his 13-year-old brother Victor, and other teenage boys entered the parking lot of the club through a hole in the gate.