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London’s Bloody Sunday by Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman

One-hundred and twenty-one years ago on this day in people’s history, police in London unleashed violence against a joint working-class labor rights and Irish home rule demonstration. On November, 13th 1887, the incidence of violence that occurred in Trafalgar Square become known as “Bloody Sunday” as it lead to numerous …

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“My Lai Massacre Reported” by Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman

Thirty-nine years ago on this day in people’s history, Seymour Hersh published a story exposing the My Lai massacre in Vietnam. On November 12th, 1969, the investigative journalist brought to the attention of the American public one of the most criminal acts of the war. The expose, which would …

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The Haymarket Martyrs by Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman

One-hundred and twenty-one years ago on this day in people’s history, four martyrs of the Haymarket Riot were executed by the state. On November 11th, 1887 anarchist labor organizers Albert Parsons, August Spies, Adolph Fischer and George Engel were all put to death before the hangman’s noose after a dubious …

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The Wilmington Race Riots of 1898 by Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman

Exactly one-hundred and ten years ago on this day in people’s history, the Wilmington Race Riots occurred in North Carolina. On November 10th, 1898 a municipal coup d’etat was staged as at least twenty-two blacks were killed by white racist members of the Democratic Party. Emboldened by …

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The Death Elijah Parish Lovejoy by Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman

One-hundred and seventy-one years ago on this day in people’s history, Elijah Parish Lovejoy was murdered by a pro-slavery mob. On November 7th, 1837 the abolitionist martyr met his fate defending his printing press and the right it enabled him to express his anti-slavery views. Lovejoy, a white …

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Tricky Dick Couldn’t be Kicked by Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman

Forty-six years ago on this day in people’s history, Richard Nixon lost the race for Governor of California. Despite the fact that Nixon lost to John F. Kennedy by 120,00 votes just two years prior in the national Presidential election, his margin of defeat to Governor Brown in …

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Susan B Anthony “Illegally” Votes by Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman

One-hundred and thirty-six years ago on this day in people’s history, Susan B. Anthony voted for President almost fifty years prior to women’s suffrage. On November 5th, 1872, the pivotal leader of the 19th century women’s rights movement cast her ballot on the belief that the fourteenth amendment …

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The Death of Wilfred Owen by Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman

Exactly ninety years ago on this day in people’s history, World War I took the life of English poet Wilfred Owen. On November 4th, 1918 soldier-poet died during the Battle of Sambre at the age of twenty-five just one week before the war would end. His mother would …

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The Greensboro Massacre by Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman

Twenty-nine years ago on this day in people’s history, the Greensboro Massacre occurred in North Carolina. On November 3rd, 1979, forty members of the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party opened fire on an anti-Klan demonstration killing five protesters. Police arrived after the eighty-eight second barrage of bullets …

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The National Negro Labor Council by Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman

Fifty-seven years ago on this day in people’s history, the National Negro Labor Council was founded in Cincinnati, Ohio. On October 27th, 1951, delegates from across the country approved a program for the newly formed organization that set out to promote civil rights within the labor movement. Labor …

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