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365 Fulton Street, Brooklyn
In October 1880, a group of greenback-socialists took out a one-year lease on the fourth floor of a building at 365 Fulton Street in Brooklyn. There they established the Spread the Light Hall and held the first meeting of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Advance Labour Club, Brooklyn, Cuno, LA 1562, Matthew Maguire, Spread the Light
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Matthew Maguire
Matthew Maguire – a machinist from Paterson, New Jersey – was usually secretary of the organizations he joined and rarely appeared on the front line of the agitation he supported. If he stood on the platform, he was likely to … Continue reading
The Irish Land League movement
The Irish National Land League was established in late 1879 with the republican and Fenian Michael Davitt as the prominent founder, and Charles Stewart Parnell, a radical, but parliamentary-oriented, aristocratic MP, as its President. The principal purposes were the reduction … Continue reading
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Tagged Davitt, Devoy, Henry George, Irish World, Land League, Parnell, Patrick Ford, Spread the Light, Terence Powderley
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Socialistic Labor Party
The party had initially been founded in 1876 as the Workingmen’s Party, as a result of the merger of four groups including Marx’s Internal Workingmen’s Association (the First International) which had moved its headquarters from Europe to New York. Initially, … Continue reading
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Tagged Greenbackers, Irish World, Peter J McGuire, Spread the Light
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