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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.
August Vincent Theodore Spies (/ s p iː s /, SPEES; December 10, 1855 – November 11, 1887) was an American upholsterer, radical labor activist, and newspaper editor.An anarchist, Spies was found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder following a bomb attack on police in an event remembered as the Haymarket affair.
The Negro in Chicago: A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot (1922) on Chicago race riot of 1919; Dobrin, Adam, ed. Statistical handbook on violence in America (Oryx, 1996) hundreds of tables and charts, focused on late 20th century. Feldberg, Michael, The Philadelphia Riots of 1844: A Study of Ethnic Conflict (1975); Feldberg.
Louis Lingg was born on September 9, 1864, in Mannheim, in the Grand Duchy of Baden to Friedrich Lingg. His father was injured in the lumber mill where he worked. Louis wrote in his autobiography: "At this time I was thirteen and my sister seven years old, and at this age I received my first impressions of the prevailing unjust social institutions, i.e., the exploitation of men by men."
The Haymarket drug treatment center filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the village of Itasca, claiming its rejection of a rehab facility proposed for a former hotel amounted to discrimination ...
George Engel (April 15, 1836 – November 11, 1887) was a labor union activist executed after the Haymarket riot, ... I protest against a commutation of my sentence ...
Haymarket home explosion: Investigators look into possible ...