The Memorial Day Massacre and the Movement for Industrial Democracy

by Michael Dennis

This book explores one of the most dramatic and scandalous events in the movement for American democratic reform. Dubbed the Memorial Day Massacre, it saw Chicago police shoot and kill ten demonstrators and beat more than one hundred others as they tried to form a mass picket line at the Republic Steel Plant in South Chicago.

288 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

Michael Dennis is assistant professor of history at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.