Modern School

June 30, 1839 – Cinque led a successful slave revolt on the ship Amistad . June 30, 1885 – The Chicago Streetcar Strike began o...

June 26, 1894 - The American Railway Union launched a boycott of all trains carrying Pullman cars, turning the Pullman strike into a n...

June 25, 1825 – U.S. troops captured Bob Forbes, leader of the Maroons (blacks resisting slavery) in Virginia. (From the Daily Bleed ) ...

Caricature of the 3rd estate carrying the 2nd (clergy) and 1st (nobility) estates on its back June 20, 1791 – A French mob invaded t...

Chartist riot, 1838 June 16, 1836 – The London Working Men's Association was formed, launching the Chartist movement.The Chart...

Versaille generals being shot during the Paris Commune May 22, 1871 –The "Bloody Week" continued in France for the second...

Max Hoedel May 11, 1878 – Emil Heinrich Maximilian Hoedel, a 21-year-old worker-anarchist, shot Emperor Guillaume I of Prussia to pub...

April 13, 1892 – The Johnson County War was fought between Wyoming homesteaders and an army of mercenaries hired by cattle interests out...

Guards' cannon dragged to Montmartre During Paris Commune ( contemporary sketch ) February 27, 1871 – The Paris Commun...

Lucy Parsons 1905      The Industrial Workers of the World  (IWW or Wobblies) was founded on June 27, 1905, by Big Bill Hayward, Da...