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Coxey's Army: Popular Protest in the Gilded Age
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The engrossing tale of the first audacious protest march on Washington—a precursor of the Occupy movement.
In 1893, after a major British bank failure, a run on U.S. gold reserves, and a lateJune stockmarket crash, America was in the throes of a serious economic depression. Unemployment rose, foreclosures climbed, and popular unrest mounted. By the following spring, businessman and Populist agitator Jacob S. Coxey was fed up with government inactivity in the face of the crisis. With the he...