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In the Memorial Day massacre of 1937, the Chicago Police Department shot and killed ten unarmed demonstrators in Chicago, on May 30, 1937. The incident took place during the Little Steel strike in the United States.
Republic Steel Strike Riot Newsreel Footage is a 1937 newsreel of the strike at Republic Steel on Memorial Day, May 30, 1937, which escalated into a massacre when Chicago police fired on protestors (1937 Memorial Day massacre). Ten protesters were killed by the police and thirty others suffered gunshot wounds.
1937 Memorial Day massacre at the Republic Steel Company, Chicago (May 30, 1937). The Little Steel strike was a 1937 labor strike by the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and its branch the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC), against a number of smaller steel producing companies, principally Republic Steel, Inland Steel, and Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company.
May 30 – Memorial Day massacre: the Chicago Police Department shot and killed ten unarmed demonstrators during labor strike at US Steel in Chicago. [2] June 14 – Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.
A landmark lost to history and is considered the world's first skyscraper. Chicago Water Tower and Chicago Avenue Pumping Station, circa 1886. 1886 May 4, the Haymarket riot. [20] Chicago Evening Post published (until 1932). [1] 1887: Newberry Library established. 1888: Dearborn Observatory rebuilt. 1889 Hull House founded. [1] [21] Auditorium ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 29 December 2024. This article is about the year 1937. For the 2005 EP by Soul-Junk, see 1937 (EP). 1937 January February March April May June July August September October November December Calendar year Millennium: 2nd millennium Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1910s 1920s ...
The Quarantine Speech was a speech given by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Chicago on October 5, 1937. The speech called for an international "quarantine" against the "epidemic of world lawlessness" by aggressive nations as an alternative to the political climate of American neutrality and non-intervention that was prevalent at the time.
The following events occurred in May 1937: ... 1937–9". European History ... The "Memorial Day massacre" took place in Chicago as the police fired on a parade ...