A daily, pocket-sized history of America's working people, brought to you by The Rick Smith Show team.
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Wednesday Aug 24, 2022
Wednesday Aug 24, 2022
The year was 1877.
That summer during what came to be known as “The Great Upheaval,” police, the US Army, and the National Guard brutally crushed a national railroad strike. The simmering anger of working people had many elected officials and industrialists on edge.
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