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AMERINGER, OSCAR (1870-1943)

From the Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, written by Stephen H. Norwood, University of Oklahoma.

"Testimony on Unemployment"

(1932) by Oscar Ameringer. This appears in Peter B. Levy, ed., 100 Key Documents in American Democracy (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1994), pages 327-330. This PDF document is housed on our site, but the original can be found at

http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/pdocs/ameringer_testimony.pdf

"If You Don't Weaken: The Autobiography of Oscar Ameringer"

pages 67-70

"I Stumbled on the Place by Sheer Accident": Oscar Ameringer Discovers the Cincinnati Public Library in 1888.

pages 44-47

"The Bad News From Chicago": Labor Organizer Oscar Ameringer Describes the Effect of the Haymarket Bombing on the Knights of Labor.