Knights of Labor
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The Knights of Labor, officially the Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor, was the largest American labor movement of the 19th century, for a time claiming nearly one million members. It opera
Terence Powderly, Grand Master Workman of the Knights of Labor during its meteoric rise and precipitous decline (1890)
Puck magazine cartoon satirizing the first annual picnic of the "Knights of Labor"
J. R. Sovereign, Grand Master Workman of the Knights of Labor from 1893 to 1897
The explosion that started the Haymarket Affair
Mother Jones
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Mary G. Harris Jones, known as Mother Jones from 1897 onward, was an American labor organizer, schoolteacher, and dressmaker who became a prominent union organizer, community organizer, and activist.
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Jones in 1902
The Mother Jones Memorial near her birthplace
Pennsylvania state historical marker for Mother Jones in Coaldale, Schuylkill County
Jones at New York City Hall in 1915, where she was attending the hearings of the Federal Commission on Industrial Relations