The American Railway Union, headed by Eugene Debs, is founded in Chicago. In
the Pullman strike a year later, the union was defeated by federal
injunctions and troops, and Debs was imprisoned for violating the
injunctions - 1893
Union and civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph and others meet with Pres. Roosevelt about a proposed July 1 March on Washington to protest discrimination in war industries.
Susan B. Anthony goes on trial in Canandaigua, N.Y. for casting her ballot in a federal election the previous November, in violation of existing statutes barring women from the vote - 1873