Allan Pinkerton grew up in a tenement in the Gorbals, a former leper colony on the south bank of the river Clyde. He was the second Allan Pinkerton born to Isabella, who was the second Isabella married to William Pinkerton. It was a rough neighborhood. Allan played when and where he could, always with an …
February 14, 1817: Anti-slavery activist Frederick Douglass was born on this date. (Check out the graphic novel about Frederick Douglass by comic book artist extraordinaire, David Walker) February 14, 1903: President Theodore Roosevelt signed a law creating the Department of Commerce and Labor. February 14, 1903: The Western Federation of Miners (WFM) went on strike for …
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February 13, 1635 – Boston Latin School was opened, the first public school in the United States. February 13, 1837 – A flour Riot occurred in New York City. 6,000 New Yorkers attending a “bread, meat, rent, and fuel” meeting in Chatham Square assaulted local flour merchants who they claimed were hoarding flour in order to drive …