Gotham Center for New York City History(@GothamCenter ):@CambridgeUP @historian73 Read about the violent suppression of a worker demonstration in Tompkins Square Park in 1874 — which Samuel Gompers called ‘an orgy of brutality’ — to the larger suppression of worker's rights and social darwinism during the turn of the twentieth century.

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2024.03.01 14:32

@CambridgeUP @historian73 Read about the violent suppression of a worker demonstration in Tompkins Square Park in 1874 — which Samuel Gompers called ‘an orgy of brutality’ — to the larger suppression of worker's rights and social darwinism during the turn of the twentieth century.