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History 350: American Radicalism

I. Haymarket and the First American Red Scare
(Link to site on Haymarket) (Link to "Famous Trials" Site on Haymarket)
(Link to "The Dramas of Haymarket" site) 

    A. Anarchism and Marxism in Gilded Age America
(Link to mega-site on anarchist history/theory) Pittsburgh Manifesto, 1881

    B. Chicago and Its Workers

C. Eight Hour Day Movement

II. What Happened at Haymarket?
    A. May Day Demonstrations and Protests   

    B. McCormick Reaper Works--Police kill two protesters, May 3, 1886

    C. Anarchists Call a Protest Meeting--the "Revenge Circular"

    D. The Meeting and the Bomb--May 4, 1886

    E. Who Did It?

III. The Aftermath
    A. Raids, Manhunts and Arrests

    B. The Trial of the Anarchists

    C. Executions--Nov. 11, 1887

D. Governor Altgeld Pardons Haymarket Prisoners--Jnne 1893

IV. Haymarket as the "First Red Scare"

Eight Hour Day Parade

Strikers Attacked, May 3, 1886

"Revenge Circular" after McCormick Killings

Mayor’s Proclamation after Haymarket