Historical Book Excerpt: The Kearney Agitation in California by Henry George

Denis Kearney

Historical Book Excerpt: The Kearney Agitation in California by Henry George

1880

Historical Book Excerpt

The Museum of the City of San Francisco features the perspective of writer Henry George on Denis Kearney- an Irish immigrant and leader of the Workingmen's Labor Party of California, and his political career. The source includes an excerpt from George's book (1880), The Kearney Agitation in California, in which he provides an account of Kearney and the Workingmen Party's anti-Chinese movement in California.

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