Strike Headquarters: Three Brothers' Saloon

ID: 2098 ~ Source: The Times-Democrat, Public Domain. ~ Date: December 8, 1892
This file appears in: 1892 General Strike
This file appears in: 1892 General Strike

By Michael Mizell-Nelson
Shortly before the arrest of Homer Plessy in June 1892, a successful streetcar strike initiated a wave of union organizing that culminated in what has been called the first biracial general strike in…