Due to the results of the strength of organized labor and other mass movements of the 1930s, the Social Security Act was passed.
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White workers murdered Black workers in Arkansas who were coming to work on the railways.
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The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) declared a strike.
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IWW labor organizer Frank Little was lynched from a railroad trestle.
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The U.S. government attacked an encampment of Black and white WWI veterans with tanks, bayonets, and tear gas.
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Rail workers and residents of St. Louis, Missouri briefly took over the city as part of the wider Great Railroad Strike of 1877.
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Black women in Atlanta who washed clothes for a living organized an effective Reconstruction era strike — with clear demands, strategic timing, and door-to-door canvassing.
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The Bisbee Deportation was the illegal deportation of more than 1,000 striking mine workers (IWW-led strike), their supporters, and citizen bystanders by 2,000 vigilantes.
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A camp warden and guards shot dead seven prisoners being held at the Anguilla Prison in Georgia. The Anguilla Prison Massacre Quilt Project tells that story, drawing on records from the NAACP.
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Miners in Coeur d’Alene held a strike and took on the Pinkertons.
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Mary Harris “Mother” Jones began the “March of the Mill Children.”
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Spies from the Pinkerton Detective Agency and striking steelworkers engaged in a major battle as part of the Homestead Strike.
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In Paterson, New Jersey, 2,000 workers went on strike from 20 textile mills.
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More than 1,000 streetcar workers went on strike in New Orleans.
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The Southern Homestead Act of 1866 was signed, providing land to the formerly enslaved, lands which had been stolen from the Native American inhabitants.
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The Sierra Club launched the Stop Sugar Field Burning Campaign to bring an end to the practice of sugarcane field burning which is harmful to the environmental and the health of local residents.
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Eugene V. Debs made his famous anti-war speech protesting World War I, which was raging in Europe at the time.
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