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Memorial Day Massacre 1937

CTL-E-0102 · Event

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Combined Graph record U-01635 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-E-0102. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.

Police kill 10 steel strikers, South Chicago

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Police kill 10 steel strikers, South Chicago

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On Sunday, May 30, 1937, striking Republic Steel workers and their allies attempted to set up a picket line in front of the mill on Chicago's Southeast Side; Chicago police responded with guns and clubs, killing ten men (named in the source) and injuring roughly one hundred people (Chicago History Museum, tier 1).

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Children at a meal, Chicago, 1941 — CultureTechLens
Children at a meal, Chicago, 1941 — CultureTechLensPhoto: Russell Lee, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress
Children playing in vacant lot in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, 1941 — CultureTechLens
Children playing in vacant lot in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, 1941 — CultureTechLensPhoto: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress
Hallway of a kitchenette apartment building, Chicago, 1941 — CultureTechLens
Hallway of a kitchenette apartment building, Chicago, 1941 — CultureTechLensPhoto: Russell Lee, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

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