USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Who was involved in the Haymarket Affair? The Haymarket Affair involved Chicago police and demonstrators at a mass meeting of workers in Haymarket Square called by anarchist labour leaders to protest police brutality.

Detailed explanation-2: -Because the anarchists and the strike were associated with the Knights of Labor, the Knights of Labor was therefore blamed for the riot that had occurred. The Knights of Labor began to steadily lose membership from workers who feared an association with the negatively viewed union.

Detailed explanation-3: -Throughout it all, the identity of the Haymarket bomb thrower remained a mystery. Nevertheless, on May 27, eight anarchists were indicted for murder in connection with the riot-August Spies, Albert Parsons, Samuel Fielden, George Engel, Adolph Fischer, Michael Schwab, Louis Lingg and Oscar Neebe.

Detailed explanation-4: -Albert Parsons was the leader of the American branch of the International Working People’s Association (I.W.P.A.), an anarchist group whose stated goal was to engineer a social revolution that would empower the working class.