Timeline May 1894

Events in May 1894 5

• 1894 Coxey's Army marches on Washington Unemployed workers demand public works relief Jacob Coxey led a march of unemployed workers from Massillon, Ohio, to Washington, D.C., arriving on 1 May 1894 to demand a federal public works program. The demonstration was one of the first organized protest marches on the U.S. capital. Coxey and other leaders were arrested for walking on the Capitol lawn.
• 1894 – 1957 Norma Talmadge (1894-1957) American actress, one of the biggest stars of silent film.
• 1894 Norma Talmadge born in Jersey City Norma Talmadge is born in Jersey City.
• 1894 Pullman Strike Nationwide rail boycott paralyzes American railroads Workers at the Pullman Palace Car Company near Chicago walked out on 11 May 1894 over wage cuts, and the American Railway Union under Eugene Debs launched a sympathy boycott of Pullman cars nationwide. The strike halted rail traffic across much of the country until federal troops were deployed in July to break it. Debs was jailed, and the episode became a landmark in American labor history.
• 1894 Gandhi founds Natal Indian Congress A young lawyer organizes Indians in South Africa Mohandas Gandhi founded the Natal Indian Congress on 22 May 1894 to fight discrimination against Indian immigrants in the British colony of Natal. It was Gandhi's first political organization and marked the beginning of his activism. The methods he developed there later shaped his campaigns in South Africa and India.