Thomas J. Brady

Coal Creek War Begins: Miners Free Convict Laborers, Attack Lease System

1891-07-15 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

Three hundred Tennessee coal miners successfully besiege the Briceville stockade after midnight on July 15, 1891, the anniversary of Bastille Day, freeing forty convict laborers and their guards and putting them on a train to Knoxville. Later that day, miners march on the Knoxville Iron Company mine …

Tennessee Coal Mining Company Knoxville Iron Company Tennessee Miners John P. Buchanan Thomas J. Brady labor-organizing convict-lease-system corporate-resistance institutional-racism

Garfield Launches Investigation of Star Route Postal Fraud Scheme

1881-04-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

President James A. Garfield launches an investigation in April 1881 into the Star Route scandal, a massive postal fraud scheme that has defrauded the Post Office of $4 million through rigged bidding on rural mail delivery contracts. The scandal involves a ring of contractors, brokers, and appointed …

James A. Garfield Thomas J. Brady Stephen W. Dorsey Chester A. Arthur Bradley Barlow systematic-corruption gilded-age postal-fraud elite-impunity