Summary Of Black Friday By Margaret Green

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The book is based around a story in where some militants get blamed for throwing a bomb at police officers and killing several in rally in Haymarket. This occurred in 1886 in Chicago where the militants were convicted and then hanged on Black Friday, 1887. Green talks about the economic, and political history of the capitalists in Chicago from the end of the Civil War. He also talks about the social conflicts of immigrant communities in Chicago and how the working class and capitalists struggled during the 1800’s. Green’s main argument is around the lack evidence that they had against the eight anarchists because although they had the support and sympathy from the union workers and notable writers they still had to prosecute somebody no matter