Historical Person

José I. Martinez

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📍 Brazil

José I. Martinez

Gender: Male

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Police kill shoemaker José I. Martinez during strike unrest

📅 9 July 1917

During a confrontation near the Mariângela factory in Brás, police shot and killed young shoemaker José I. Martinez. His death intensified an already developing labor conflict. It should be understood...

A mass funeral procession turns grief into public protest

📅 11 July 1917

Two days after Martinez was killed, a crowd gathered outside his home and carried his body across São Paulo toward the Araçá cemetery. Historian Joel Wolfe reports that about 2,000 people, mostly...