The Bad News From Chicago: Labor Organizer Oscar Ameringer Describes the Effect of the Haymarket Bombing on the Knights of Labor
The Bad News From Chicago: Labor Organizer Oscar Ameringer Describes the Effect of the Haymarket Bombing on the Knights of Labor
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The Haymarket bombing in 1886 marked a major turning point in the history of nineteenth-century labor. Used by capitalists as an excuse for a crackdown on labor organizations, the bombing also splintered what up had been until then the strongest labor organization in the United States--the Knights of Labor. The anti-labor reaction that followed in the wake of the bombing helped precipitate a rapid decline in membership in the Knights which was eventually supplanted by the American Federation of Labor. In this excerpt from his autobiography, Oscar Ameringer, a Knight himself in 1886, recalls receiving the news about the Haymarket bombing while on strike in Cincinnati.
Education Levels:
9, 10, 11, 12, Higher education
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Careers, History, Human Behavior, Human Relations, United States History
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Primary source
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Free
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Students
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History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web
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