Citizens: A Novel
First Edition. “A novelized account of the killing of ten steel mill strikers [by armed police] in Chicago on Memorial Day, 1937 [the consolidated steel strike of 1937].” HANNA 2145; COAN p.84; BLAKE p.269.
Meyer Levin, (1905-1981).
Citizens.
New York: Viking Press, 1940.
Lehigh University Catalog Record: https://asa.lib.lehigh.edu/Record/10839090
A version of this text has been digitized and is available through Hathitrust.
If you're interested in learning more about the historical events that inspired this novel, please refer to the links below:
"Memorial Day Massacre" by Jonathan J. Keyes, in The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago, Chicago Historical Society, 2005.
Photograph titled "The Chicago Memorial Day Incident" found in the National Archives, in the series Committee Papers of the Senate Subcommittee Investigating Free Speech and Labor from the 78th Congress, ca. 1944.
"Reframing Chicago’s Memorial Day Massacre, May 30, 1937" by Carol Quirke, American Quarterly, vol. 60, no. 1, 2008, pp. 129–57. Accessed on JSTOR.
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