Ten thousand angry textile strikers, fighting for better wages and working conditions, besiege a factory in Fall River, Mass., where 300 strikebreakers are working. The scabs are rescued by police using tear gas and pistols on the strikers ? 1934
African-American cotton pickers organize and strike in Lee County, Tex. against miserably low wages and other injustices, including a growers? arrangement with local law enforcement to round up blacks on vagrancy charges, then force them to work off their fines on select plantations.
White and Chinese immigrants battle in Rock Springs, Wyo. fueled by racial tensions and the practice of Union Pacific Raiload of hiring lower-paid Chinese over whites.