August Spies

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anarchist labor activist person political radical

August Spies was a German-American anarchist and labor activist who became one of the most prominent defendants executed after the 1886 Haymarket affair in Chicago.

Aliases (1)

Haymarket martyrs ×1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	anarchist → labor activist → person → political radical →
associatedWith	Adolph Fischer → Albert Parsons → George Engel → Louis Lingg → Michael Schwab → Oscar Neebe →
burialPlace	Forest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois → German Waldheim Cemetery →
causeOfDeath	judicial execution →
citizenship	Germany → United States of America →
convictedOf	conspiracy related to the Haymarket bombing →
countryOfBirth	Germany →
dateOfBirth	1855-12-10 →
dateOfDeath	1887-11-11 →
dateOfSentence	1886-10-09 →
editorOf	Arbeiter-Zeitung →
ethnicOrigin	German →
familyName	Spies →
famousLastWords	"The time will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today." →
fullName	August Vincent Theodore Spies →
givenName	August →
hasCause	struggle for the eight-hour workday →
languageOfWorkOrName	English → German →
mannerOfDeath	execution by hanging →
memorializedBy	Haymarket Martyrs' Monument →
movement	anarchist movement → labor movement →
notableFor	Haymarket affair → labor movement in Chicago →
occupation	anarchist → editor → labor activist →
participantIn	Chicago labor movement → Haymarket affair →
placeOfBirth	German Confederation → Landeck, Hesse-Kassel →
placeOfDeath	Chicago, Illinois, United States →
politicalIdeology	anarchism → socialism →
religion	freethought →
residence	Chicago, Illinois, United States →
trialHeldIn	Chicago, Illinois, United States →
workedAs	newspaper editor → upholsterer →

Referenced by (8)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Forest Home Cemetery → Haymarket Martyrs’ Monument →	burialPlaceOf
Louis Lingg → Michael Schwab →	coDefendant
Haymarket Martyrs’ Monument ("Haymarket martyrs") → Haymarket Martyrs’ Monument →	dedicatedTo
Forest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois →	containsGraveOf
German Waldheim Cemetery →	hasBurial