The Tompkins Square Park riot occurred on January 13, 1874, at Tompkins Square Park in what is now the East Village and Alphabet City neighborhoods of Manhattan, New York City. The riot started after
Crowd driven from Tompkins Square by the mounted police
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An economic depression is a period of carried long-term economic downturn that is the result of lowered economic activity in one or more major national economies. It is often understood in economics t
1874 Tompkins Square Park riot
…City Police Department clashed with a demonstration involving thousands of unemployed civilians. The riot occurred in the midst of the Panic of 1873, a depression that began in 1873 and lasted for several years. Workers movements throughout the United States had been making demands of the government to help ease…
Unemployed men queued outside a depression soup kitchen opened in Chicago, Illinois by infamous gangster Al Capone, February 1931
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