A Newberry Library and Chicago Historical Society Exhibit: October 1, 2004, to January 15, 2005

		Claiming Human Rights: Industrial Democracy Chicago became a battleground of ideas, words, and deeds in the 1880s and 1890s. On one side stood a few men of great fortune represented by George Pullman, Cyrus McCormick, and Marshall Field. On the other side stood thousands of wage workers and their families. At the core of this conflict were troubling questions about citizenship: Should wage earners participate in democracy? Whose interests would the city serve? Should working-class Chicagoans have the right to gather, parade, and speak on city streets, or should these activities be limited and treated as threats to public order?   �. . . all that is ugly, and discordant, and demoralizing, is eliminated. . . .� Pullman Company pamphlet, 1893     �This is a corporation made and a corporation governed town, and is utterly un-American in its tendencies.� Rev. William H. Carwardine, The Pullman Strike, 1894

This exhibit has been organized by the Newberry Library's Dr. William M. Scholl Center for Family and Community History and the Chicago Historical Society. It has been made possible with major funding provided in part by The Institute of Museum and Library Services, a federal agency that fosters innovation, leadership and a lifetime of learning. Generous support also provided by The Chicago Reader and Dr. and Mrs. Tapas K. Das Gupta.