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History Matters: Keep Off the Grass!: Coxey's Army Invades the Nation's Capital

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Read the speech that Jacob S. Coxey planned to give at the U.S. Capitol in 1894, but was prohibited from doing so after being arrested for walking on the grass. He wanted to address the issue of the harm the depression of 1893 was causing.

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