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The San Diego Free Speech Fight

A set of contemporary photographs about the 1912 San Diego Free Speech Fight, documenting the police violence and some of the participants in the fight.

San Diego Free Speech Fight, California, 1912. Injured man, shirtless, showing b
Police Assail Free Speech Protesters with Fire Hoses.
The Notorious Soapbox
IWW Members Being Marched to Jail
IWW Members in Front of San Diego School House
San Diego Wobbly Group Portrait
Woman Soap Box Speaker
Four men, two women, one boy, fists raised, holding black flag. Labor Day leafle
Police dispersing Free Speech Meeting, San Diego, California, March 10, 1912
Five men, four with hats, one in middle holding copy of Industrial Worker
Man with hat holding De Vrije Socialist, standing with one foot on IWW San Diego
[Henry] Austin Adams, "roasting the Onion" (making speech), San Diego, 1912?
San Diego Free Speech Fight, California, 1912. Police dispersing Free Speech Mee
San Diego Free Speech Fight, California, 1912.
San Diego Free Speech Fight, California, 1912.
San Diego Free Speech Fight, California, 1912.
San Diego Free Speech Fight, California, 1912.
San Diego Free Speech Fight, California, 1912. Group of eight men, wearing suits
San Diego Free Speech Fight, California, 1912. Michael Hoey' hearse?.
San Diego Free Speech Fight, California, 1912. Mrs. Fremont Holder, mass meeting
San Diego Free Speech Fight, 1912.
San Diego Free Speech Fight, 1912.
San Diego Free Speech Fight, 1912.
San Diego Free Speech Fight, California, 1912. Injured man, with head wound
San Diego Free Speech Fight, California, 1912. Police dispersing Free Speech Mee
San Diego Free Speech Fight, California, 1912. Police and Water vs. I.W.W.'s.
San Diego Free Speech Fight, California, 1912. Geo. Prosser, victim of police br
San Diego Free Speech Fight, California, 1912. "3 English machinists after servi
San Diego Free Speech Fight, California, 1912. Men standing in street, backs to
Submitted by Reddebrek on February 19, 2017
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  • Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
  • United States
  • repression
  • San Diego
  • San Diego Free Speech Fight

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