A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America
by
James Green
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
On May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of whom eventually died. A wave of mass hysteria swept the country, leading to a sensational trial, that culminated in four controversial executions, and dealt a blow to the labor movement from which it would...