A City in Terror: Calvin Coolidge and the 1919 Boston Police StrikeBeacon Press, 15/05/2005 - 264 páginas On September 9, 1919, an American nightmare came true. The entire Boston police force deserted their posts, leaving the city virtually defenseless. Women were raped on street corners, stores were looted, and pedestrians were beaten and robbed while crowds not only looked on but cheered. The police strike and the mayhem that followed made an inconspicuous governor, Calvin Coolidge, known throughout America, turning him into a national hero and, eventually, a president. It also created a monster: for two days, more than 700,000 residents of Boston's urban core were without police protection, and the mob ruled the streets. |
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... Harvard Law School, he took out a service revolver and a shield- shaped nickel badge stamped Boston Police. He was now, he told my mother, a special policeman for the duration of the emergency. That evening he spent several hours going ...
... Harvard Law School, he took out a service revolver and a shield- shaped nickel badge stamped Boston Police. He was now, he told my mother, a special policeman for the duration of the emergency. That evening he spent several hours going ...
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... Harvard Teuton, Professor Hugo Muensterberg, or because he had had a German grandfather in the Franco-Prussian War, or perhaps to bait my English mother. I expect all four motives were inextricably combined in him. But the sinking of ...
... Harvard Teuton, Professor Hugo Muensterberg, or because he had had a German grandfather in the Franco-Prussian War, or perhaps to bait my English mother. I expect all four motives were inextricably combined in him. But the sinking of ...
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... Harvard's Professor Francis Peabody returned his Order of the Prussian Crown to the Kaiser via Switzerland. Not to be outdone, the trustees of Brown University revoked the honorary degree they had earlier conferred on the German ...
... Harvard's Professor Francis Peabody returned his Order of the Prussian Crown to the Kaiser via Switzerland. Not to be outdone, the trustees of Brown University revoked the honorary degree they had earlier conferred on the German ...
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... Harvard five years earlier at the age of fifteen, the Letts trudged off toward Boston. Near the Dudley Street el terminal they came up against a squad of police, who ordered them to halt. Instead they rushed the police, who gave way ...
... Harvard five years earlier at the age of fifteen, the Letts trudged off toward Boston. Near the Dudley Street el terminal they came up against a squad of police, who ordered them to halt. Instead they rushed the police, who gave way ...
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The Boston Police Department | 26 |
Overture to a Strike | 47 |
Summers End in Boston | 73 |
On a Tuesday in September | 97 |
The Ghost of Scollay Square | 236 |
Postscript in Baltimore | 242 |
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affiliation afternoon American Federation appointed Armory asked BCLU Boston Police Department Boston Police Strike Boston Social Club called Calvin Coolidge Captain Central Labor City Hall commis committee Company Coolidge's crowd Crowley Curley Curtis's delegates Democratic dollars duty election Faneuil Hall Fay Hall Federation of Labor felt fire Gompers Governor Coolidge guard guardsmen Harvard headquarters hundred issue Jamaica Plain James James Michael Curley Labor Union leaders Long Massachusetts Mattapan mayor McCarthy McInnes meeting morning night O'Meara Parker patrol patrolmen Pemberton Square Peters Police Commissioner police force police officers police strike police union Policemen's Union political President refused remained replied Republican revolvers rifle riot Roxbury Scollay Square Senator sergeants sioner soldiers South Boston Starr Faithfull station houses Storrow strikers striking policemen thousand tion told volunteers vote walked Washington Street watch watchmen week workers wrote Yankee