Haymarket Riot 1886

strike in Chicago in favor of 8 hour days where a bomb was thrown into a crowd, killing 1 person. It caused the end of the Knights of Labor.

He was one of the organizers of the protest at Haymarket on May 4, 1886. When a bomb was thrown into the crowd and killed seven police officers, he was tried, convicted, and hanged for murder.

One of four fellow union Leaders. Convicted of conspiracy and hanged because they thought he was involved in the Haymarket Affair. He became an active leader for radical equality (EX: 8 hour workday movement)

The police killed 4 people. The Haymarket Square bombing killed 6 cops. As a result, Parsons, Spies and 6 other union leaders were charged with conspiracy and were killed.

German, Bohemian

A bomb-maker sentenced to death and committed suicide in jail

Governor of Illinois during the Haymarket riots, he pardoned three convicted bombers in 1893, believing them victims of the "malicious ferocity" of the courts.

one of the companies people were mad at

survivors that were pardoned

owner of McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, made mechanical reaper