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In Chicago, the movement's center, an estimated 30,000 to 40,000 workers had gone on strike [11] and there were perhaps twice as many people out on the streets participating in various demonstrations and marches, [15] [16] as, for example, a march by 10,000 men employed in the Chicago lumber yards. [12]
The rioting lasted a week and resulted in the deaths of 23 blacks and 15 whites and left over 1,000 people, mostly black, homeless. 38 537 1916–21 Political, organized crime Aldermen's wars - Alderman John Powers and challenger Anthony D'Andrea battled over control of Chicago's 19th Ward, located in Little Italy. Both were associated with ...
On February 23, 2010, Orlando Zapata, a dissident arrested in 2003 as part of a crackdown on opposition groups, died in a hospital while undertaking a hunger strike that had been ongoing for 85 days. His hunger strike was a protest against poor prison conditions. Amnesty International had declared him a prisoner of conscience. [40]
Irish prisoners who died on hunger strike (1 C, 12 P) Pages in category "People who died on hunger strike" The following 45 pages are in this category, out of 45 total.
Grup Yorum [2] Helin Bölek; Ibrahim Gökçek; Irish republicans all died while on hunger strike. Thomas Ashe (1917) Terence MacSwiney (1920 Cork hunger strike) Michael Fitzgerald (1920 Cork hunger strike) Joe Murphy (1920 Cork hunger strike) Denny Barry (1923 Irish hunger strikes) Andy O'Sullivan (1923 Irish hunger strikes) Joseph Whitty (1923 ...
CHICAGO — The names of four fallen officers, including one who died more than 100 years ago, were added Wednesday to the memorial wall at Gold Star Families Memorial and Park, just east of ...
QUITO (Reuters) -Ecuador's former Vice President Jorge Glas attempted suicide earlier this week and is now on a hunger strike at a prison in Guayaquil to protest his arrest, his lawyer Sonia Vera ...
May Day, or International Workers' Day was a day for remembering the workers who died during the Haymarket affair of 1886. [3] During a General Strike in Chicago, Illinois, an unknown person threw a bomb into the crowd, prompting police to fire into the crowd, killing civilians and police alike.