Coxey’s Crusade for Jobs : : Unemployment in the Gilded Age / / Jerry Prout.
In the depths of a depression in 1894, a highly successful Gilded Age businessman named Jacob Coxey led a group of jobless men on a march from his hometown of Massillon, Ohio, to the steps of the nation's Capitol. Though a financial panic and the resulting widespread business failures caused mi...
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