Forum Post: This happened before in 1876
Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 15, 2011, 8:56 a.m. EST by national
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Please read "1876 A Year of Living Violently". Among other accounts of that year, it details the history of the middle class protest after the Gold bank failure due to leveraged investing. Wages were suppressed 50% and the laboring class participated in a national movement that began in Baltimore Md. The scale of the protests were impressive.
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