Wall Street Protest February 19, 1938
The Occupy Wall Street protest movement garnered a lot of media attention when it occurred in 2011.
The rich get richer and the poor get poorer is a theme that has played out time and again over the course of American history.
The Great Depression put millions of Americans out of work. It wasn’t just about the rich versus the poor. It was about survival and a serious shortage of jobs.
Eighty years ago today, this is how a jobs protest was described as it reached Wall Street: Continue reading