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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... uniforms. The guardsmen carried rifles with fixed bayonets rather than revolvers, just like the pictures of soldiers in the war. That Halloween I was chased by a guardsman who caught me shinnying up a A PERSONAL RECOLLECTION.
... uniforms. The guardsmen carried rifles with fixed bayonets rather than revolvers, just like the pictures of soldiers in the war. That Halloween I was chased by a guardsman who caught me shinnying up a A PERSONAL RECOLLECTION.
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... rifle at port, and the light sparkling on the bayonet as he chased me across lots and under clotheslines. At each step he took I could hear the slap of the leather sling against his rifle stock. I was so frightened I wet myself. By the ...
... rifle at port, and the light sparkling on the bayonet as he chased me across lots and under clotheslines. At each step he took I could hear the slap of the leather sling against his rifle stock. I was so frightened I wet myself. By the ...
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... rifles lined the roofs, and all windows were ordered closed as he drove past. The day before, two Spanish anarchists of the Groupa Pro Prensa had been arrested for plotting Wilson's assassination. Nothing untoward occurred during the ...
... rifles lined the roofs, and all windows were ordered closed as he drove past. The day before, two Spanish anarchists of the Groupa Pro Prensa had been arrested for plotting Wilson's assassination. Nothing untoward occurred during the ...
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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