The Hoover File

May 2: J. Edgar Hoover died on this day in 1972, eight days away from his forty-eighth anniversary as director of the FBI.

May Day, May Day…

May 1: Historians cite the 1886 May Day parade in Chicago — some 80,000 marching for an eight-hour workday, the Haymarket Square Massacre coming just days later — as one of the pivotal moments in modern labor history.