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Civil Rights and Labor History Consortium / University of Washington

Brief History/ Storymap Timeline 1905-1920

This Timeline/ Storymap illustrates and briefly describes critical events from the founding of the IWW in 1905 through the difficulties of the mid 1920s.

Grab and move the timeline above to navigate through the slides.

This timeline/history was initiated by Che Capilli using Knight Labs TimelineJS. Additional content by James Gregory and Arianne Hermida. More information about many of these events is available in our Yearbooks of Strikes, Campaigns, Arrests. See also: Chronology of IWW History , by Michael Hargus, Industrial Workers of the World website