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Pullman Strike - Began on May 11, 1894, after workers for the Pullman Company began strike after a reduction in wages. The strike spread nationwide and shut down most railroad traffic west of Detroit. The strike lasted several months and 30 strikers were killed in various riots and clashes with government forces. 30 57
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1977 Chicago gravediggers' strike, 55-day strike by cemetery workers in Chicago, United States. [20] 1977 Chilean hunger strike, strike by relatives of detainees disappeared by the Military dictatorship of Chile held in the headquarters of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. [21] [22]
A 1911 headline in Votes for Women about William Ball being force-fed in prison to end his hunger strike Clipping from World Magazine, September 6, 1914. In the early 20th century suffragettes frequently endured hunger strikes in British prisons. Marion Dunlop was the first in 1909. She was released, as the authorities did not want her to ...
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]
Andy O'Sullivan (1923 Irish hunger strikes) Joseph Whitty (1923 Irish hunger strikes) Tony D'Arcy (1940) Jack McNeela (1940) Seán McCaughey (1946) Michael Gaughan (1974) Frank Stagg (1976) Michael Devine (1981) Kieran Doherty (1981) - while on hunger strike was elected to the Republic of Irelands Dáil Éireann, representing the Cavan ...
Little Village Lawndale High School Campus is a public high school located in the South Lawndale neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The campus contains four autonomous small schools with some shared facilities. [1] LVLHS has a unique campus design that reflects its original inception from a hunger strike in 2001.
The activism of the CCCO pulled SCLC to Chicago, as did the work of the AFSC's Kale Williams, Bernard Lafayette, David Jehnsen and others, owing to the decision by SCLC's Director of Direct Action, James Bevel, to come to Chicago to work with the AFSC project on the city's West Side. [2] (The SCLC's second choice had been Washington DC.