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Joe Hill (October 7, 1879 – November 19, 1915), born Joel Emmanuel Hägglund and also known as Joseph Hillström, was a Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, familiarly called the "Wobblies").
Joe Hill was a Swedish-born American songwriter and organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW); his execution for an alleged robbery-murder made him a martyr and folk hero in the radical American labour movement.
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Nov 16, 2009 · 1914. Labor activist and singer Joe Hill sentenced to death. Convicted of murder on meager evidence, the singing Wobbly Joe Hill is sentenced to be executed in Utah. A native of Sweden who...
Oct 2, 2019 · Joe Hill was a Swedish immigrant who became a prominent organizer and songwriter for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in America. He was executed by firing squad in 1915 after being convicted of murder in a controversial trial, and his case inspired many songs and protests.
Aug 27, 2011 · A new biography about Joe Hill, a labor icon who was executed by a firing squad in Utah in 1915, makes a strong case that he was wrongfully convicted of murdering a local grocer.
Joe Hill. The making of a martyr. Did Utah execute an innocent man by firing squad on Nov. 19, 1915? A century later, Joe Hill inspires artists and galvanizes activists.
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Nov 19, 2005 · Joe Hill’s story is the story of a man who saw with unusual clarity the unjust effects of the political, social and economic system on working people and whose own widely publicized trial and execution alerted people worldwide to the injustices and spurred them into corrective action.
