[The day will come when our silence will be more powerful than the
voices you are throttling today. ]
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MAY DAY, HAYMARKET, KENT STATE, JACKSON STATE
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April 28, 2023
Friday's Labor Folklore
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_ The day will come when our silence will be more powerful than the
voices you are throttling today. _
The Haymarket Martyrs' Monument, Chicago, Illinois,
The Haymarket Martyrs' Monument commemorates workers' struggle to
achieve the eight-hour workday and the 1886 rally in Haymarket Square
that led to the hanging of four of the fight for workers' rights.
On May 4, 1886 a group of workers gathered in Haymarket Square in
Chicago to protest police brutality against strikers at the South Side
McCormick Reaper Factory. At the conclusion of the meeting, police
marched in and demanded an end to the gathering. An unknown assailant
threw a bomb into the crowd, and police shots rang out. Several
police officers and protestors were killed or wounded. Police later
apprehended eight labor activists, four of whom would be executed.
In Dec. 1887 the Pioneer Aid and Support Association was incorporated
with the purpose of "providing for the families of the executed men
and of erecting a monument to their memory."
The monument marks the gravesite of the Haymarket martyrs
-- August Spies, Adolph Fischer, Albert Parsons, Louis Lingg, and
George Engel. German Waldheim Cemetery, with its nondiscrimination
policy, was the only cemetery in the Chicago area that would accept
their remains. The dedication ceremony on June 25, 1893 was attended
by over 8,000 people. Floral tributes came from unions in England,
France and Belgium.
On Feb. 18, 1997 the monument was officially designated a National
Historic Landmark.
From: The Smithsonian American Art Museum,
Inventory of American Sculpture
Why May Day? See: Illinois Labor History Society
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EXECUTED ON NOVEMBER 11, 1887
The Haymarket Martyrs
Four men were executed, one committed suicide in prison and three
others were pardoned by Illinois Governor Peter Altgeld.
The Folks that Brought you the Weekend.
Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio
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(notecard, t-shirt, poster)
Remembering
Kent State and Jackson State
ON MAY 4, 1970 AT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY, the Ohio National Guard
opened fire on a crowd gathered to protest the Vietnam War. Four
students were killed and nine were wounded. In its immediate
aftermath, a student-led strike forced the temporary closure of
colleges and universities across the country.
ON MAY 15, 1970 AT JACKSON STATE COLLEGE, Mississippi police opened
fire on a crowd of students killing two and wounding twelve. Racial
tension between white motorists who traveled through campus, a false
rumor about the assassination of Fayette mayor Charles Evers, the
Vietnam War and the Kent State shootings contributed to the students'
protest.
Allison Krause, William Schroeder, Sandra Scheuer & Jeffrey Miller,
Kent State University, 1970
Ohio
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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Phillip Lafayette Gibbs, 21-year-old law student & James Earl Green,
17-year-old high school student.
Jackson State College, 1970
Mississippi Clay
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Magpie
Terry Leonino & Greg Artzner
Learn more about the tragedy that occurred
at Jackson State College. This video was produced by
Jackson State University, Office of Communications.
Click here
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ON APRIL 28TH, THE LABOR MOVEMENT OBSERVES WORKERS' MEMORIAL DAY TO
REMEMBER WORKERS KILLED, INJURED, OR MADE ILL ON THE JOB AND TO RENEW
THE FIGHT FOR STRONG SAFETY AND HEALTH PROTECTIONS. (AFL-CIO)
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