Mural Marks 1934 Minneapolis Strike
Chris Garlock | Published on 10/4/2024
In the summer of 1934, in the midst of the Great Depression, Minneapolis made
national headlines when a truckers’ strike culminated in Bloody Friday as 67 picketers were shot and two died. Ninety years later, that strike is being remembered on three panels of a new mural on a building erected at the same intersection where strikers battled cops to win their union and turn the city into a union stronghold.