The Line Has Moved
POLITICAL POWER · WAR AND SECURITY · LAW AND COURTS
Federal troop deployments in the
U.S. have historically oscillated
between suppressing dissent and
protecting civil rights, revealing.
They didn’t knock.
In 1894, federal troops rolled into
Chicago—not to defend the
Constitution, but to put workers
back in line. George Pullman had cut
wages but kept rents high in his
company-owned housing. When his
laborers protested, he fired them.
When the American Railway Union…
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