In July of 1851, two railroad strikers were shot and killed and dozens of others were injured protesting over their working conditions by the State Militia in New York. On Jan. 13, 1874, as unemployed workers demonstrated in New York City’s Tompkins Square Park, mounted police charged the demonstrators, which included women and children, beating them without regard with clubs and injuring hundreds.
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In July of 1851, two railroad strikers were shot and killed and dozens of others were injured protesting over their working conditions by the State Militia in New York. On Jan. 13, 1874, as unemployed workers demonstrated in New York City’s Tompkins Square Park, mounted police charged the demonstrators, which included women and children, beating them without regard with clubs and injuring hundreds.
