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	''Dramatization of Irish couple arguing over the anti-Chinese agitation in San Francisco in 1877. Original recording by Haight Ashbury Community Radio project, 1980.''		''Dramatization of Irish couple arguing over the anti-Chinese agitation in San Francisco in 1877. Original recording by Haight Ashbury Community Radio project, 1980.''

	''"Bedraggled and wretched, they stood endlessly in the winter rain. They trailed through the streets of the white men's section begging a handout at the charity kitchens; they clamored on the City Hall steps for half a days labor setting cobblestones or cleaning the city sewers. They waited in the sandlots for a word from Kearney or Kalloch.”''		''"Bedraggled and wretched, they stood endlessly in the winter rain. They trailed through the streets of the white men's section begging a handout at the charity kitchens; they clamored on the City Hall steps for half a days labor setting cobblestones or cleaning the city sewers. They waited in the sandlots for a word from [[Workingmen’s Party of California\|Kearney or Kalloch]].”''

	Mrs. Anna Smith was a regular speaker among the unemployed in the sandlots of San Francisco. Born in 1835 in New York state, she was put out to domestic service as a child, worked in a shoe factory which shut down during the depression of 1857, worked in a girls' seminary and public school, was a nurse for the Union Army during the Civil War, husband died in Missouri and she ended up scrubbing and ironing from Denver to San Francisco in time for the depression of 1875. In SF she tried work as a cook, housekeeper, and finally found herself unemployed. One reporter found her “well informed on matters connected with the labor question.” She frequently spoke publicly at the sandlots, adjourning by announcing that “she wanted something to keep her jaws going and give her tongue a rest,” and supposed “all present felt the same.”		Mrs. Anna Smith was a regular speaker among the unemployed in the sandlots of San Francisco. Born in 1835 in New York state, she was put out to domestic service as a child, worked in a shoe factory which shut down during the depression of 1857, worked in a girls' seminary and public school, was a nurse for the Union Army during the Civil War, husband died in Missouri and she ended up scrubbing and ironing from Denver to San Francisco in time for the depression of 1875. In SF she tried work as a cook, housekeeper, and finally found herself unemployed. One reporter found her “well informed on matters connected with the labor question.” She frequently spoke publicly at the sandlots, adjourning by announcing that “she wanted something to keep her jaws going and give her tongue a rest,” and supposed “all present felt the same.”

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	Mrs. Anna Smith was a regular speaker among the unemployed in the sandlots of San Francisco. Born in 1835 in New York state, she was put out to domestic service as a child, worked in a shoe factory which shut down during the depression of 1857, worked in a girls' seminary and public school, was a nurse for the Union Army during the Civil War, husband died in Missouri and she ended up scrubbing and ironing from Denver to San Francisco in time for the depression of 1875. In SF she tried work as a cook, housekeeper, and finally found herself unemployed. One reporter found her “well informed on matters connected with the labor question.” She frequently spoke publicly at the sandlots, adjourning by announcing that “she wanted something to keep her jaws going and give her tongue a rest,” and supposed “all present felt the same.”		Mrs. Anna Smith was a regular speaker among the unemployed in the sandlots of San Francisco. Born in 1835 in New York state, she was put out to domestic service as a child, worked in a shoe factory which shut down during the depression of 1857, worked in a girls' seminary and public school, was a nurse for the Union Army during the Civil War, husband died in Missouri and she ended up scrubbing and ironing from Denver to San Francisco in time for the depression of 1875. In SF she tried work as a cook, housekeeper, and finally found herself unemployed. One reporter found her “well informed on matters connected with the labor question.” She frequently spoke publicly at the sandlots, adjourning by announcing that “she wanted something to keep her jaws going and give her tongue a rest,” and supposed “all present felt the same.”

			[[Image:New City Hall and sand lot c 1880 Thomas P Woodward collection courtesy Society of California Pioneers.jpg\|800px]]

			'''New City Hall and sand lot, c. 1880, a few years after the riots of 1877.'''

			''Photo: from the collection of Thomas P. Woodward, courtesy Society of California Pioneers''


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	'''July 23, 1877 unemployed rally in Civic Center sandlots'''		'''July 23, 1877 unemployed rally in Civic Center sandlots facing the construction of [[Old City Hall of SF\|City Hall]].'''

	''Image: Bancroft Library, Berkeley, CA''		''Image: Bancroft Library, Berkeley, CA''

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	''Image: Bancroft Library, Berkeley, CA''		''Image: Bancroft Library, Berkeley, CA''

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			''Dramatization of Irish couple arguing over the anti-Chinese agitation in San Francisco in 1877. Original recording by Haight Ashbury Community Radio project, 1980.''

	''"Bedraggled and wretched, they stood endlessly in the winter rain. They trailed through the streets of the white men's section begging a handout at the charity kitchens; they clamored on the City Hall steps for half a days labor setting cobblestones or cleaning the city sewers. They waited in the sandlots for a word from Kearney or Kalloch.”''		''"Bedraggled and wretched, they stood endlessly in the winter rain. They trailed through the streets of the white men's section begging a handout at the charity kitchens; they clamored on the City Hall steps for half a days labor setting cobblestones or cleaning the city sewers. They waited in the sandlots for a word from Kearney or Kalloch.”''
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	'''July 23, 1877 unemployed rally in Civic Center sandlots''' ''Image: Bancroft Library, Berkeley, CA''		'''July 23, 1877 unemployed rally in Civic Center sandlots'''

			''Image: Bancroft Library, Berkeley, CA''

	''"Bedraggled and wretched, they stood endlessly in the winter rain. They trailed through the streets of the white men's section begging a handout at the charity kitchens; they clamored on the City Hall steps for half a days labor setting cobblestones or cleaning the city sewers. They waited in the sandlots for a word from Kearney or Kalloch.”''		''"Bedraggled and wretched, they stood endlessly in the winter rain. They trailed through the streets of the white men's section begging a handout at the charity kitchens; they clamored on the City Hall steps for half a days labor setting cobblestones or cleaning the city sewers. They waited in the sandlots for a word from Kearney or Kalloch.”''

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	Mrs. Anna Smith was a regular speaker among the unemployed in the sandlots of San Francisco. Born in 1835 in New York state, she was put out to domestic service as a child, worked in a shoe factory which shut down during the depression of 1857, worked in a girls' seminary and public school, was a nurse for the Union Army during the Civil War, husband died in Missouri and she ended up scrubbing and ironing from Denver to San Francisco in time for the depression of 1875. In SF she tried work as a cook, housekeeper, and finally found herself unemployed. One reporter found her “well informed on matters connected with the labor question.” She frequently spoke publicly at the sandlots, adjourning by announcing that “she wanted something to keep her jaws going and give her tongue a rest,” and supposed “all present felt the same.”		Mrs. Anna Smith was a regular speaker among the unemployed in the sandlots of San Francisco. Born in 1835 in New York state, she was put out to domestic service as a child, worked in a shoe factory which shut down during the depression of 1857, worked in a girls' seminary and public school, was a nurse for the Union Army during the Civil War, husband died in Missouri and she ended up scrubbing and ironing from Denver to San Francisco in time for the depression of 1875. In SF she tried work as a cook, housekeeper, and finally found herself unemployed. One reporter found her “well informed on matters connected with the labor question.” She frequently spoke publicly at the sandlots, adjourning by announcing that “she wanted something to keep her jaws going and give her tongue a rest,” and supposed “all present felt the same.”

	~~''--Chris Carlsson''~~

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			'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''

			''by Chris Carlsson''

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'''July 23, 1877 unemployed rally in Civic Center sandlots''' ''Image: Bancroft Library, Berkeley, CA''

''"Bedraggled and wretched, they stood endlessly in the winter rain. They trailed through the streets of the white men's section begging a handout at the charity kitchens; they clamored on the City Hall steps for half a days labor setting cobblestones or cleaning the city sewers. They waited in the sandlots for a word from Kearney or Kalloch.”''

Mrs. Anna Smith was a regular speaker among the unemployed in the sandlots of San Francisco. Born in 1835 in New York state, she was put out to domestic service as a child, worked in a shoe factory which shut down during the depression of 1857, worked in a girls' seminary and public school, was a nurse for the Union Army during the Civil War, husband died in Missouri and she ended up scrubbing and ironing from Denver to San Francisco in time for the depression of 1875. In SF she tried work as a cook, housekeeper, and finally found herself unemployed. One reporter found her “well informed on matters connected with the labor question.” She frequently spoke publicly at the sandlots, adjourning by announcing that “she wanted something to keep her jaws going and give her tongue a rest,” and supposed “all present felt the same.”

''--Chris Carlsson''

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