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Bisbee Deportation
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Event TypeLabor DisputeEvent Date1917-07-12Date Range1910s (1910-1919)LocationBisbee, ArizonaDescriptionOn June 26, 1917, the labor union Industrial Workers of the World called a strike in the town of Bisbee. The morning of July 12, 1917, Sheriff Harry Wheeler and 2,000 deputies arrested over a thousand Bisbee men and marched them to a waiting train. The train carried 1,187 men across to Columbus, New Mexico, and left them in the desert. In October 1917 the federal government held a Presidential Hearing on the event, known as the Bisbee Deportation, but neither Wheeler nor his deputies were convicted of wrongdoing (Benton-Cohen, 2009; Byrkit, 1982).More InformationWikipedia
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Bisbee Deportation. Arizona Memory Project, accessed 02/11/2024, https://azmemory.azlibrary.gov/nodes/view/113362