Book — Non-fiction. By Mary Cronk Farrell. 2016. 56 pages.
Biography of labor union activist Fannie Sellins.
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Book — Non-fiction. By National Park Service. 2017. 165 pages.
A theme study on the history of the Reconstruction era.
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Lee Yick won a Supreme Court case that said that all people — citizens and non-citizens alike — had equal protection under the law.
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The U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark decision in United States v. Wong Kim Ark.
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Helen Keller worked throughout her long life to achieve social justice.
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Plessy v. Ferguson upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities.
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Queen Lili`uokalani of the independent kingdom of Hawai`i was overthrown as she was arrested at gunpoint by U.S. Marines.
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Zora Neale Hurston, a folklorist, anthropologist, and author, was born in Alabama.
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The 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act was signed, prohibiting Chinese immigration to the United States.
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When the United States refused to recognize Philippine independence, Philippine Republic president Emilio Aguinaldo declared war.
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Miners in Coeur d’Alene held a strike and took on the Pinkertons.
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A mob lynched 11 Italians in New Orleans for the killing of the New Orleans police chief.
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Film clip. Voices of a People's History.
Harriet Hanson Robinson's "Characteristics of the Early Factory Girls" (1898) read by Lili Taylor.
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International Workers’ Day began as a commemoration of the 1886 Haymarket massacre in Chicago.
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Educator and civil rights organizer Septima Clark was born in South Carolina.
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Blanche K. Bruce became Register of the Treasury, which placed his name on all U.S. currency.
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Homer Plessy was arrested for violating Louisiana’s Separate Car Act.
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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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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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White workers murdered Black workers in Arkansas who were coming to work on the railways.
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White coal miners in Rock Springs, Wyoming, brutally attacked Chinese workers.
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African Americans voters were threatened after the Danville Riot, leading to their loss of political power in this majority African American city in Virginia.
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