Coxey's Army Marches: First Major Protest March on Washington
Businessman Jacob Coxey led a ragged column of unemployed workers from Massillon, Ohio, to Washington demanding Congress fund public works jobs during the 1890s depression. The first significant protest march on the U.S. capital attracted national press but arrived with only 500 of the thousands who set out. Coxey was arrested for walking on the Capitol lawn, but his vision of government-funded employment became New Deal policy forty years later.
March 25, 1894
132 years ago
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