Shot Dead on Memorial Day - May 30, 1937

On Memorial Day 1937, fifteen hundred workers, families, and supporters marched toward a Chicago steel plant singing union songs and carrying American flags, exercising rights the federal government had guaranteed them two years earlier. By the end of the afternoon, ten of them were dead, shot by police who had been equipped in advance by the company they were striking against. A film crew captured everything. The footage was suppressed for decades.