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On this day, May 1, in 1886

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80,000 people marched down Michigan Avenue in Chicago demanding an eight-hour workday. In the following days the strikers around the country quadrupled, and police responded with violence, beating and arresting many protesters. Days later at a peaceful protest meeting in Chicago, the police accused strikers of throwing a bomb at them and opened fire into the crowd, killing many. This incident, possibly a setup to justify the police attack, leads eight strikers to be sentenced to death, despite the fact that no evidence proved their involvement. Governments sure will go a long way to protect capitalism.

On this day, August 16, in 1963

  • produced by Arturo Contreras
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The Mississippi State College Board voted that James H. Meredith, the first black student to attend the University of Mississippi, should not be barred from his graduation. This decision angered Governor Ross Barnett of Mississippi who had not only attempted to prevent James Meredith from graduating but had openly opposed his presence at the University since Meredith's first attempt to desegregate it. Governor Barnett made his feelings toward Meredith clear in a public speech he delivered at a University football game that year. In this degrading "I love Mississippi" speech, Barnett stated that he would never allow the University of Mississippi to be desegregated.

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