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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
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 ...
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 ...
Before “All in the Family” debuted, there was a profound gap between real life and what was being depicted on TV series. In his autobiography “Even This I Get to Experience,” Norman Lear ...
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 ...
The Nixon administration secretly canceled the protesters' camping permit. U.S. Park Police and Washington Metropolitan Police, dressed in riot gear, raided the encampment.. The police gave the campers until noon to clear o
Also on May 8, an antiwar protest at New York's Federal Hall National Memorial held at least partly in reaction to the Kent State killings was met with a counter-rally of pro-Nixon construction workers (organized by Peter J. Brennan, later appointed U.S. Labor Secretary by President Nixon), resulting in the Hard Hat riot.