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Interesting Websites - southernman - 08-15-2003 Dramas of The Haymarket "The Haymarket" was an 1886 labor protest in which several policemen were killed by a bomb, and it remains a symbol of our nation's struggle over labor rights. Here, the Chicago Historical Society and Northwestern University present the dramatic event as a tragedy in five acts. Photos, engravings, trial testimony, pamphlets and newspapers are among the first-hand artifacts that help visitors explore the tumult of Chicago immediately before and after Haymarket. This multimedia project gives the late 19th century an immediacy only the web can offer: virtual tours of the Haymarket area, labor songs of the time and an enormous array of primary sources on dynamic display. 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