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Reading Railroad Massacre PA1560 Print E-mail
In 1877, amidst hard times, unrest hit U.S. rail lines. Workers for the Reading Railroad had endured pay cuts. Here, on July 23, militia fired into an unarmed crowd that blocked the trains, and 10 people were killed. U.S. troops reopened the railroad.
7th & Penn Sts., Reading. Berks County Pennsylvania.
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