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may 4, 1886 - Haymarket Square Riot May 4, 1886

Description:

-propagandists claimed that unions were subversive forces
-During a labor demonstration in Chicago's Haymarket Square, a bomb went off
-Police were killed
-Many blamed the incident on the influence of radicals within the union movement
-Nobody knew who set off the bomb.

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Date:

may 4, 1886
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~ 139 years ago