Haymarket Riot

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Haymarket Riot

Chicago labor dispute erupted into mob scene (1886). [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 297]

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Dinah's efforts to help her family are interwoven with details of the Haymarket Square riot in Chicago.

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Welch noted that urban violence and terrorism, from the 1886 Haymarket Square riot to the urban riots that punctuated the 1960s, "were the result of plotting and agitation, by professional revolutionaries, on behalf of their bosses at the top." He further pointed out: "These bosses were not themselves even recognized as revolutionaries, and certainly were not downtrodden.

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The Chicago strikes and demonstrations of 1886-1888 culminated in the violent Haymarket Square riots, which included the murder of Chicago police officers, when anarchists hurled a dynamite bomb into police ranks.

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