More than 1,000 streetcar workers went on strike in New Orleans.
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The Southern Homestead Act of 1866 was signed, providing land to the formerly enslaved, lands which had been stolen from the Native American inhabitants.
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The Sierra Club launched the Stop Sugar Field Burning Campaign to bring an end to the practice of sugarcane field burning which is harmful to the environmental and the health of local residents.
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Eugene V. Debs made his famous anti-war speech protesting World War I, which was raging in Europe at the time.
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The Chicago Police Department shot and killed ten unarmed demonstrators in Chicago on Memorial Day.
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Union members were beaten by Ford Motor Co. reps for distributing leaflets in the Battle of the Overpass.
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The Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934 was settled with union recognition and reinstatement for all fired workers.
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