It was an industry that at one time employed 700,000 workers, including 200,000 here in the Chicago area. Italians, Poles, Mexicans, African Americans, and others willing to put in a long and sometimes dangerous day’s work found good pay and a career working at the steel mills. Then gradually, it went away… but not before one fateful Memorial Day protest turned deadly.
YouTube Short: Chicago's U.S. Steel South Works and Steelworker's Park (Then and Now)
https://youtu.be/20dc56meKG8
PBS: Memorial Day Massacre: Workers Die, Film Buried https://www.pbs.org/video/memorial-day-massacre-workers-die-film-buried-3hzo89/
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Memorial Day Massacre: Workers Die, Film Buried by Greg Mitchell
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1937 Chicago Steel Strike: Blood On The Prairie, The by John F. Hogan
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Blood On Steel: Chicago Steelworkers and the Strike of 1937 by Michael Dennis
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Steelworker's Park:
https://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/parks-facilities/steelworkers-park
Chicago Lakeside: Imagine (with Bill Kurtis)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Po53cnuHlg
Illinois Labor History Society Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q3RUGLfFv0
Mollie West Describes the Memorial Day Massacre:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sO1siAQlWA&t=9s
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