Haymarket Riot

The Haymarket Riot on 4 May 1886 in Chicago, Illinois is the origin of international May Day observances and in popular literature inspired the inaccurate caricature of "the bomb-throwing anarchist". The causes of the incident are still controversial, although deeply polarized attitudes separating the business and working communities in late 19th century Chicago are generally acknowledged as having precipitated the tragedy and its aftermath.

Sources

• Bach, Ira and Mary Lackritz Gray, Chicago's Public Sculpture, University of Chicago Press, Chicago IL 1983
• Hucke, Matt and Ursula Bielski, Graveyards of Chicago, Lake Claremont Press, Chicago Il 1999
• Kvaran, Einar Einarsson, Haymarket -A Century Later, unpublished manuscript
• Riedy, James L, Chicago Sculpture University of Illinois Press, Urbana, IL 1981
• Fireside, Bryna J, Haymarket Square Riot Trial: A Headline Court Case Enslow Publishers, Inc., Berkeley Heights, NJ 2002