Seeds of Fire: A People’s Chronology
Recalling events that happened on this day in history.
Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.
Compiled by Ulli Diemer
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July 7, 1903
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Labour organizer Mother Jones leads the “March of the Mill Children” over 100 miles from Philadelphia to President Theodore Roosevelt’s Long Island summer home, to publicize the harsh conditions of child labour and to demand a 55-hour work week.
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July 7, 1912
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Grabow Riot. Unionized timber workers in Louisiana, members of the Industrial Workers of the World, confront mill owners and their agents near Grabow (Graybow). Four men die in the violent clash, and some 50 are wounded.
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July 7, 1979
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2,000 American Indian activists and anti-nuclear demonstrators marched through the Black Hills of western South Dakota to protest the development of uranium mines on native lands.
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