Wednesday, May 2
4pm

Haymarket and the Labor Trail  
Join the historical walking tour with activist and scholar Joe Berry, leading from the historic Jane Addams Hull-House Museum to Haymarket.  This tour is based on the history of Chicago's working class life and struggle as represented in the Chicago Center for Working Class Studies' Labor Trail Map, created by Leon Fink, Professor of History at University of Illinois at Chicago.  

Come back to the Museum afterwards for treats and a film narrated by James Earl Jones about the great railroad strike of 1877,  an important precurser to Haymarket.

4-4:15: Introductory remarks on Haymarket, Jane Addams, and the Hull-House.

4:15-5:45: Guided tour by Joe Berry, walk to Haymarket site & walk back.

5:45-6:30: Film screening and Conversation, 1877: The Grand Army of Starvation (American Social History Project, narrated by James Earl Jones).

More about the film:

For two weeks in the summer of 1877, the United States was brought to a standstill. A nationwide rebellion quickly spread along the country's railroad lines. Eighty thousand railroad workers walked out, joined by hundreds of thousands of Americans—white and black, native and foreign-born, employed and unemployed—all outraged by the excesses of the giant railroad companies and the misery of a four-year economic depression. Police, state militia, and federal troops clashed with strikers and sympathizers. The Great Uprising shaped the beliefs of a generation of Americans, marking the end of the nation's first century and inaugurating a new era of conflict over the meaning of America in the industrial age. Narrated by James Earl Jones, 1877 vividly portrays this little-known yet critical event in U.S. history.

More about Joe Berry:

Joe Berry is an activist and scholar, who teaches labor history at UIC. The child of two teachers, Berry first learned organizing in the civil rights, student, and socialist movements of the 1960's, and was a regional traveler (organizer) for Students for a Democratic Society in Iowa. After spending ten years teaching social studies, English and special education in the public schools in San Francisco, he taught history and labor studies in colleges in the San Francisco area, especially at the City College of San Francisco . He holds an MA in history from San Francisco State University and a Ph.D. in labor studies from the Union Institute and University . 

This event is ADA accessible. If you have a disability and need additional accommodations to attend this event, please call 312.413.5353.

FREE
Space is limited. For reservations call 312.413.5353

Jane Addams
Hull-House Museum
Residents' Dining Hall
800 South Halsted

The Labor Trail map is now interactive and web-based and can be accessed here: http://www.labortrail.org/