Haymarket Square
Americannoun
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Following the backlash to the Haymarket Square bombing and a series of failed strikes, the Knights faded.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025
The anarchist group decided to hold a protest the following night in Haymarket Square, and, although the protest was quiet, the police arrived armed for conflict.
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
A blast during last October's Weatherman rampage in Chicago toppled a statue commemorating policemen killed in the 1886 Haymarket Square riot and ensuing disturbances�all of which was triggered by an anarchist's bomb.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the following day a mass meeting held in Haymarket Square, Chicago, was harangued by a number of anarchists.
From The Armies of Labor A chronicle of the organized wage-earners by Orth, Samuel Peter
Thereupon the men called a meeting in Haymarket Square to protest against the action of the police; in the main they were orderly, for Mayor Carter Harrison was present and found nothing objectionable.
From The United States Since the Civil War by Lingley, Charles Ramsdell
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