What they saw and how they saw it: the media and the Haymarket’s bomb blast
On May 3, 1886 laborers working in Chicago’s Haymarket Square were killed by local police officers. Tensions between the two groups had been brewing since before the Civil War based on the length of the basic workday. Laborers were aware they were being treated unfairly, and were ready to fight for what they believed to be right. After these killings, however, over time the group has only been remembered as a group of rabble-rousers willing to stir up trouble in an effort to upset law enforcement....