"he Chicago Historical Society has created this digital collection to provide on-line access to its primary source materials relating to the Haymarket Affair, a controversial moment in Chicago's past and a pivotal event in the early history of the American labor movement. "
"Voltairine de Cleyre was an American anarchist. She was skilled in many subjects and wrote essays, poems, letters, sketches, stories and speeches. These are her selected Haymarket speeches. (Summary by enko)"
he Haymarket speeches as delivered on the evening of the throwing of the bomb at Haymarket square, Chicago, May 4, 1886 by August Spies and Albert R. Parsons.
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An appeal to the governor of Illinois in behalf of the condemned anarchists
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