Democratic Party

The Democratic Party
http://www.democrats.org/hq/history/
History of the Democratic party at its homepage.

The American Presidency
http://gi.grolier.com/presidents/ea/side/dparty.html
History of the Democratic Party and its main leaders.

Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)

American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organization
http://www.aflcio.org/front/about.htm
This is the official homepage of the AFLCIO. It provides relevant information about its history and its present tasks.

The Workers Alliance

Unions and Workers Organizations
http://www.umwa.org/history/cio1.shtml
This site provides information about the history, purpose, activities of The Congress of Industrial Organization.

The Organization of the Workers into the Congress of Industrial Organizations
http://www.bartleby.com/65/am/AmerFL-CIO.html
Article on the history of AFL and CIO and their merger to the present.

Farmers' Associations

Cooperatives Help Farmers Survive the Great Depression, Position Themselves for New Marketing Opportunities
http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/rbs/pub/jan99/1930s.html
An article published in the Rural Cooperative Magazine, United States Department of Agriculture, Rural Development.

The Communist Party

Communist Party U.S.A.
http://www.cpusa.org/cp-usa/index.html
This is the official site of the US Communist Party. It provides information about its ideological principles and its mission.

Demonstrations

The Memorial Day Massacre - 1937
http://uswa1011.org/history/republicmassacre/republic-massacre.htm
Description of the Memorial Day Massacre from the United Steelworkers of America. The site contains photographs, testimonies, and other references from then and now.

The Memorial Day Massacre
http://www.chipublib.org/004chicago/disasters/memorialday_strike.html
Summary given by the U.S. Senate Committee reporting on the Memorial Day incident. Chicago Public Library site.

May Day Parades
http://students.washington.edu/ruckus/vol-2/issue-6/mayday.html
A brief overview of May Day parades since 1880