The Great Railroad Strike in Ohio 1877

An economic depression starting with the Panic of 1873 made life for railroad workers go from poor to intolerable. By July 1877 they could take it no more—and so began the Great Railroad Strike. It's a story that includes Sandusky native Jay Cooke, a moral panic over the thousands of men who took to the road looking for work who were labeled "tramps," and greedy railroad executives.

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