Crowd estimated to be several thousand in number

ID: 1994
This file appears in: 1929 Streetcar Strike

This image was recorded just after the crowd had derailed and damaged the strikebreaker car, but before fire had engulfed the car.

Mizell-Nelson Collection

This file appears in: 1929 Streetcar Strike

By Michael Mizell-Nelson
Following increasingly heated contract negotiations, New Orleans streetcar motormen and conductors struck beginning July 1, 1929. The survival of the carmen's union and 1,100 jobs was in question.…