Paterson pageant explained

The Paterson pageant was a dramatic depiction of the 1913 Paterson silk strike acted by the strikers themselves in New York City's Madison Square Garden while the strike was ongoing. Staged by John Reed and other bohemians of Greenwich Village, the pageant played before a full audience and received positive reviews, though its public support and sympathy did not translate into success for the six-month strike, which crumbled following the pageant. One of the Wobbly leaders behind the strike, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, credited the pageant with hastening strike's end, having split the strikers' attention from their primary cause.^[1]

The pageant attracted early career artists including Robert Edmond Jones, who designed the poster, and John Sloan, who painted the 90-foot mills backdrop.^[2]

Further reading

• Book: Chura . Patrick J. . Bloom . Harold . "Vital Contact": Eugene O'Neill and the Working Class . Eugene O'Neill . 2007 . en . 978-0-7910-9366-5 . Infobase Publishing . https://books.google.com/books?id=iaInO3aZTwYC&pg=PA194 . mdy-all .
• Edmund . Jayme . Protests, pageants, and publications: Narratives of labor agitators, 1913-1914 . 2017 . EN . University of Northern Iowa . 1042211692 . mdy-all .
• Fishbein . Leslie . The Paterson Pageant (1913): The Birth of Docudrama as a Weapon in the Class Struggle . . 72 . 2 . 197–233 . 1991 . 0146-437X . 23178785 . mdy-all .
• Book: Garrett. Mary. Gottfried. Heidi. VanBurkleo. Sandra F.. Remapping the Humanities: Identity, Community, Memory, (post)modernity. 2008. Wayne State University Press. 0-8143-3369-9. 87–.
• Book: Golin . Steve . The Paterson Pageant . The Fragile Bridge: Paterson Silk Strike, 1913 . 157– . 1992 . en . 978-1-56639-005-7 . Temple University Press .
• Golin . Steve . The IWW and Bohemians: The Case of the Paterson Pageant . WUSA WorkingUSA . 8 . 5 . 565–572 . 2005 . en . 1089-7011 . 5156551239 . mdy-all .
• Book: Green . Martin Burgess . New York 1913: The Armory Show and the Paterson Strike Pageant . 1988 . en . 978-0-684-18993-2 . Scribner . mdy-all .
  • Fishbein . Leslie . Review of New York 1913: The Armory Show and the Paterson Strike Pageant . . 72 . 1 . 92–93 . 1991 . 0146-437X . 23175181 . mdy-all .
  • Golin . Steve . Review of New York 1913: The Armory Show and the Paterson Strike Pageant . . 95 . 3 . 926–927 . 1990 . 10.2307/2164490 . 0002-8762 . 2164490 . mdy-all .
  • Wilson . Christopher P. . Review of New York 1913: The Armory Show and the Paterson Strike Pageant . . 76 . 4 . 1298–1299 . 1990 . 10.2307/2936676 . 0021-8723 . 2936676 . mdy-all .
• Book: Murphy . Brenda . The Provincetown Players in American Culture . The Oxford Handbook of American Drama . January 2014 . 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199731497.013.020 . 234–247 . en . mdy-all .
• News: Nochlin . Linda . The Paterson Strike Pageant of 1913 . . 62 . 64–69 . May 1974 . en . 0004-3214 . 34759393 . mdy-all .
• Book: Tripp . Anne Huber . The Pageant . The I.W.W. and the Paterson silk strike of 1913 . 1987 . en . 978-0-252-01382-9 . University of Illinois Press . Urbana . 14379077 . 130–154 . mdy-all .
• Book: Zimmer . Kenyon . . 2015 . 978-0-252-09743-0 . University of Illinois Press . 86 . 919484664 . mdy-all .

External links

• Pageant program
• John Reed additional papers, 1909–1939 at Harvard University Libraries

Notes and References

1. Book: Dubofsky, Melvyn. The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Business, Labor, and Economic History. 2013. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-973881-6. 64–65. Paterson Strike and Pageant.
2. Book: Glassberg, David. American Historical Pageantry: The Uses of Tradition in the Early Twentieth Century. 1990. UNC Press Books. 978-0-8078-4286-7. 131.