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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.

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

References

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

Further reading

• Chura, Patrick J. (2007). ""Vital Contact": Eugene O'Neill and the Working Class". In Bloom, Harold (ed.). Eugene O'Neill. Infobase Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7910-9366-5.
• Edmund, Jayme (2017). Protests, pageants, and publications: Narratives of labor agitators, 1913-1914 (Thesis). University of Northern Iowa. OCLC 1042211692.
• Fishbein, Leslie (1991). "The Paterson Pageant (1913): The Birth of Docudrama as a Weapon in the Class Struggle". New York History. 72 (2): 197–233. ISSN 0146-437X. JSTOR 23178785.
• Garrett, Mary; Gottfried, Heidi; VanBurkleo, Sandra F. (2008). Remapping the Humanities: Identity, Community, Memory, (post)modernity. Wayne State University Press. pp. 87–. ISBN 978-0-8143-3369-3.
• Golin, Steve (1992). "The Paterson Pageant". The Fragile Bridge: Paterson Silk Strike, 1913. Temple University Press. pp. 157–. ISBN 978-1-56639-005-7.
• Golin, Steve (2005). "The IWW and Bohemians: The Case of the Paterson Pageant". WUSA WorkingUSA. 8 (5): 565–572. doi:10.1111/j.1743-4580.2005.00065.x. ISSN 1089-7011. OCLC 5156551239.
• Green, Martin Burgess (1988). New York 1913: The Armory Show and the Paterson Strike Pageant. Scribner. ISBN 978-0-684-18993-2.
  • Fishbein, Leslie (1991). "Review of New York 1913: The Armory Show and the Paterson Strike Pageant". New York History. 72 (1): 92–93. ISSN 0146-437X. JSTOR 23175181.
  • Golin, Steve (1990). "Review of New York 1913: The Armory Show and the Paterson Strike Pageant". The American Historical Review. 95 (3): 926–927. doi:10.2307/2164490. ISSN 0002-8762. JSTOR 2164490.
  • Wilson, Christopher P. (1990). "Review of New York 1913: The Armory Show and the Paterson Strike Pageant". The Journal of American History. 76 (4): 1298–1299. doi:10.2307/2936676. ISSN 0021-8723. JSTOR 2936676.
• Murphy, Brenda (January 2014). "The Provincetown Players in American Culture". The Oxford Handbook of American Drama. pp. 234–247. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199731497.013.020.
• Nochlin, Linda (May 1974). "The Paterson Strike Pageant of 1913". Art in America. Vol. 62. pp. 64–69. ISSN 0004-3214. OCLC 34759393.
• Tripp, Anne Huber (1987). "The Pageant". The I.W.W. and the Paterson silk strike of 1913. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. pp. 130–154. ISBN 978-0-252-01382-9. OCLC 14379077.
• Zimmer, Kenyon (2015). Immigrants Against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America. University of Illinois Press. p. 86. ISBN 978-0-252-09743-0. OCLC 919484664.

External links

Media related to Paterson pageant at Wikimedia Commons

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

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