may 7, 1886 - Haymarket Square Attack (May 1886)

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Chicago police advanced on meeting called to protest authorities’ brutality, Dynamite bomb thrown, killed/injured ~dozen ppl including police; 8 anarchists rounded up in Chicago, had nothing to do w/ bomb; Charged w/ conspiracy, sentenced to death, one committed suicide, 3 had stiff prison terms; survivors pardoned by Gov Altgeld

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