Timeline Sunday 25 March 1894

Events on Sunday 25 March 1894 1

• 1894 Coxey's Army marches on Washington Unemployed workers demand public works relief Jacob Coxey led a march of unemployed workers from Massillon, Ohio, to Washington, D.C., arriving on 1 May 1894 to demand a federal public works program. The demonstration was one of the first organized protest marches on the U.S. capital. Coxey and other leaders were arrested for walking on the Capitol lawn.