Japanese immigrant and labor advocate Katsu Goto was strangled to death, his body then strung from an electric pole, on the Big Island of Hawaii by thugs hired by plantation owners. They were outraged over Goto’s work on behalf of agricultural workers and because he opened a general store that competed with the owners’ own company store. – 1889
Japanese immigrant and labor advocate Katsu Goto was strangled to death, the stock market crashes, beginning the 10-year Great Depression, and NOW was founded in Chicago.CLICK TO TWEETThe Wall Street Crash, also known as Black Tuesday, the Great Crash, or the Stock Market Crash of 1929 was the most devastating stock market crash in U.S. history when taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its aftereffects. The crash signaled the beginning of the 10-year Great Depression that affected all Western industrialized countries. – 1929
The National Organization for Women (NOW) was founded in Chicago. – 1966
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