Jacob Coxey was the leader of the "Coxey's Army," a protest march of unemployed workers to the capital in 1894 during the Panic of 1893. Coxey advocated for government-funded public works projects to alleviate unemployment.
Coxey's Army was a rehearsal of sorts for the Pullman Strike.
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Coxey's Army marched to Washington DC in 1894 as a protest by unemployed workers. The march took place during the second year of a four-year economic depression in the United States.
If you google for Coxey's Army, wiki has a page on it. Coxey's name seems to be spelled differently by different sources. It was a small protest of unemployed men in 1894 in the midst of what was then the worst recession in the history of the US. Estimates of participation vary from 500 to thousands. Coxey was the leader, and was arrested and jailed for trespassing on the capitol grass. It was actually a sort of ragtag group, and so Coxie's Army probably tends to refer to an angry poorly organized grassroots protest. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coxey%27s_Army
After the Panic of 1893, in which many railroad companies and banks went bankrupt, many workers lost their jobs. Coxey's Army was a group of disgruntled, laid-off railroad workers who marched from Ohio to Washington DC. The main goal of this march was to convince the federal government to take action in the Panic.(pass laws to help, increase amount of currency, etc.?
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