LibGuides: Primary Sources: Social Reform & Activism: Haymarket

Online Sources: Haymarket

The Autobiographical Sketch of August Spies
The Autobiography of Albert Parsons
The First Mayday: the Haymarket Speeches
The Haymarket Affair Digital Collection
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"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. "
Haymarket Speeches
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"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)"
Haymarket Square Riot (CARLI Digital Collections)
Haymarket Trial (1886)
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access trial transcripts, news accounts, etc.
“A Healthy Public Opinion”
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Terence V. Powderly Distances the Knights of Labor from the Haymarket Martyrs

The Chicago Martyrs by John Peter Altgeld & , August Vincent Theodore Spies
Call Number: Online - free - Google Books
The famous speeches of the eight anarchists in Judge Gary's court, October 7, 8, 9, 1886 : and Reasons for pardoning Fielden, Neebe, and Schwab
Gov. John P. Altgeld's Pardon of the Anarchists by Lucy Parsons
Call Number: Online - free - Open Library
The Great Anarchist Trial by August Vincent Theodore Spies & Albert R. Parsons
Call Number: Online - free - Google Books
The Haymarket speeches as delivered on the evening of the throwing of the bomb at Haymarket square, Chicago, May 4, 1886
The Great Anarchist Trial
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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.
From HathiTrust Digital Library
Reasons for pardoning Fielden, Neebe and Schwab by John Peter Altgeld
Call Number: Online - free - Internet Archive
Was it a fair trial? by Gen. M. M. Trumbull
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
An appeal to the governor of Illinois in behalf of the condemned anarchists

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