40 Hours to Freedom: The Invention of the Weekend
Conflicted: A History Podcast
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A Bomb Hits Haymarket Square
The next day, May 4, at a place called Haymarket Square, a crowd of activists, strikers, and workers gathered to protest the police brutality. Half a block away, six companies of police, about 200 men at all, were arming up. As one witness recalled quote, everybody was running and people fell struck by bullets right and left. In the confusion, the police began firing into their own ranks. And as those words cut through the cold Chicago night, something else rose up into the air. It was small and sparking and hissing, a round object sailing towards the police formation. It was a bomb.
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