Tag Archive | "Criminal Injustice"
Subversive Historian – 12/26/09
The Largest Mass Execution in US History One-hundred and thirty-six years ago on this day in people’s history, thirty-eight Dakota men were hanged. On December 26th, 1862, the mass execution of the condemned men in Mankato, Minnesota was the largest such act ever carried out in the history of the United States. The hangings marked an [...]
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Monday, November 9, 2009
The Abduction of Calvin Fairbank Back in the day on November 9th, 1852, Reverend Calvin Fairbank was kidnapped from Indiana and taken to Kentucky. The abolitionist minister was promptly incarcerated in Louisville for assisting the escape of a so-called fugitive slave and her assistant. Fairbank had already been imprisoned previously for similar supposed “crimes,” serving five [...]
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Fannie Sellins Back in the day on August 26th, 1919, labor organizer Fannie Sellins was brutally gunned down in West Pennsylvania. Dubbed ‘the angel of mercy’ for her unionizing efforts, Sellins had successfully organized workers in Missouri and West Virginia before United Mine Workers of America leader Philip Murray, impressed by her dedication, offered her a [...]
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Monday, August 3, 2009
The Wheatland Hop Riot Back in the day on August 3rd, 1913, the Wheatland Hop Riot took place in Northern California. Nearly two-thousand agricultural hop pickers toiled at Durst Ranch working long hours in the hot sun for low pay. Many of the workers slept a mile from the ranch in the open air without blankets [...]
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Thursday, July 30, 2009
The New Orleans Race Riot of 1866 Back in the day on July 30th, 1866, a race riot broke outside of the Louisiana Constitutional Convention held in New Orleans. Radical Republicans convened to amend the previous constitution of the Southern state that had failed to enfranchise blacks. They also sought to prohibit former Confederate soldiers from [...]
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