print email comment close The Dramas of Haymarket URL: http://www.chicagohistory.org/dramas/ Description: A history of the Haymarket Affair and the emerging power of labor, putting it in context beginning with the Great Chicago Fire and the national railroad strike of 1877. Presented as a tragedy in five acts with prologue and epilogue, this history includes visual materials, artifacts, video segments (requires QuickTime), and various documents. Archives contains "copies of most of the original manuscripts, artifacts, broadsides, photographs, prints, transcript of witness testimony and the accompanying evidence from the trial," and more.There are also suggested readings. From the Chicago Historical Society and Northwestern University. Author: Smith, Carl Library of Congress Subject Headings: Anarchism Chicago (Ill.) -- History Haymarket Square Riot, Chicago, Ill., 1886 Labor movement -- United States -- History LII Database Information: Record 2140 created by Dana Lubow on 10/21/2000 Last modification on 02/25/2004 Published: 10/21/2000   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/2140