May 6, 1877 – Chief Crazy Horse surrendered to US troops, who murdered him on September 5th.
Dakota Sioux Chief Sitting Bull led 5,000 of his followers into Canada
seeking protection from the Queen and petitioned for land for a reserve
after defeating Gen. Custer and the U.S. 7th Cavalry at the Little Big
Horn. The Canadian government refused. (From the Daily Bleed)
May 6, 1882 – Congress
passed the first Chinese Exclusion Act, barring Chinese laborers from
entering the U.S. for the next 10 years and denying naturalized
citizenship to the Chinese already here. Chinese immigration was
effectively shut off for the next 60 years, as the act was extended in
both 1902 and again in 1904. (From the Daily Bleed)
May 6, 1935
– The country was deep into the Great Depression. President Franklin D.
Roosevelt signed Executive Order 7034 and appropriated $4.8 billion for
the Works Progress Administration, which put millions to work building
bridges and painting murals, among other things. (From Workday Minnesota)
May 6, 1940 – John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
won the Pulitzer Prize for the most distinguished novel of 1939. He
ultimately won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. (From the Daily Bleed)
May 6, 1960 –
In Birmingham, Alabama, 1000 children and adults were arrested,
bringing the total to 2500. Arrestees included Ella Baker, Dave
Dellinger, James Forman, Dick Gregory and Joan Baez. Eisenhower ordered
the Alabama National Guard to be placed under Federal control. (From the
Daily Bleed)
May 6, 1968 –
The Paris uprising was now in full swing. Parisian Universities were
shut down and demonstrations were breaking out with violent
confrontations with the police. On this day, the 'Nanterre 8' passed
through a police cordon singing the 'Internationale,' on their way to
appear before the University Discipline Committee. Students returning
from the discipline hearing were savagely attacked by the police.
Students started to rip up paving stones and flip over cars to form
barricades. The police flipped out and brutally attacked. The Boulevard
St. Germain becomes a bloody battleground, with over 900 wounded and 422
arrested. (From the Daily Bleed)
May 6, 1970-May 20, 1970—
Student strikes involving at least one million students (and possibly
as many as 4 million) disrupted 448 U.S. colleges during this period.
There were as many as 1,200 demonstrations against sending troops to
Cambodia. 75 campuses remained closed for the rest of the school year. (From the Daily Bleed)
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| FBI Car, Wounded Knee, 1973 |
May 6, 1973
– The FBI attacked Native Americans at Wounded Knee. The town of
Wounded Knee had been surrounded and cordoned off by the FBI and
marshals since February 27. Members of the American Indian Movement had
gone to Wounded Knee for a meeting, but were immediately locked in by
FBI. Members who tried to leave were arrested. They were opposing the
autocratic and corrupt rule of Oglala Tribal Chairman Dick Wilson.
Throughout the 3 months of occupation, gunfire was traded between the
two sides. (From the Daily Bleed and Wikipedia)
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