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Coxey's Army

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Coxey's Army

March of the unemployed from Ohio to Washington, DC, USA, during the depression of the mid-1890s, led by business executive Joseph S Coxey (1854–1951). Some 500 marchers demonstrating outside the capital were violently dispersed by police May 1894 and Coxey was arrested.
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