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[35] [36] The book The Hardhat Riot wrote of the riot that it was the day when the Old Left attacked the New Left, because "two liberalisms collided that day, presaging the long Democratic civil war ahead", and that the riot and demonstrations after captured the "era when FDR’s everyman first turned against the liberalism that once had ...
1970 — Hard Hat Riot, Wall Street, May 8, New York City; 1970 — Jackson State killings, May 14—15, two killed, Jackson, Mississippi; 1970 — Stoneman Meadow Riot, July 4, 1970, Yosemite, California; 1970 — 1970 Asbury Park race riots, July 4—10, Asbury Park, New Jersey; 1970 — 1970 Memorial Park riot, August 24—27, Royal Oak ...
Peter Joseph Brennan (May 24, 1918 – October 2, 1996) was an American labor activist and politician who served as United States Secretary of Labor from February 2, 1973, until March 15, 1975, in the administrations of Presidents Nixon and Ford.
Straw hats for men continued to be manufactured but they were more similar to hats such as the Panama, trilby or fedora in shape. By the 1950s the classic straw boater was virtually extinct as a garment, except in specialized circumstances such as the uniform of certain English public schools or university and college sportswear. [citation needed]
A transcription made of a White House tape recording dated May 5, 1971, [16] [17] documents that the planning phase of the Hard Hat Riot took place in the White House Oval Office. Colson is heard successfully instigating several New York State AFL–CIO union leaders into organizing an attack against student protesters in New York.
It documents two protest rallies against the Vietnam War that took place in May 1970: the Hard Hat Riot on Wall Street in New York City and Kent State/Cambodia Incursion Protest in Washington, D.C. The numerous camera operators do impromptu interviews with the protesters and the spectators.
John Vliet Lindsay (/ v l iː t /; November 24, 1921 – December 19, 2000) was an American politician and lawyer.During his political career, Lindsay was a U.S. congressman, the mayor of New York City, and a candidate for U.S. president.
May 08 - Jerome Wurf was born; the Hard Hat riot occurred in the U.S. in 1970; May 09 - Elias Motsoaledi died; 1934 West Coast Waterfront Strike began in the U.S. May 10 - Isaac Theophilus Akunna Wallace-Johnson died; Walter Philip Reuther died; the 2008 Skorpion Zinc Strike began in Namibia; May 11 - William Konyha was born; Pullman Strike ...