The son of a garment worker found a tale of a long-forgotten strike buried in a corner of the public library, and decided more people should have access to the stories of working men and women who built New Haven.

Frank Annunziato made that discovery while working on his graduate school thesis back in the late 1970s. He discovered an extensive write-up archived in the main library branch's New Haven history room about an 1886 strike by the city's horseless-carriage builders.

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Source: http://www.newhavenindependent.org