Walter Crane Quotes
They had certainly exasperated them, and could not disperse them, as after every charge - and some of these drove the people right against the shutters in the shops in the Strand - they returned again.
Crane, Walter. An Artist's Reminiscences. Methuen & Co., 1907, p. 266.
Reformers attempted to serve a New York Supreme Court writ on McKane to prohibit him from continuing corrupt election fraud practices.
Two protesters were killed. The demonstration so affected the government that they pressured the Belfast local authorities to announce substantial increases in relief. The economy and the employment picture got no better that year.
The State Police then attacked the demonstrators with night sticks, bull whips and tear gas. The demonstrators were trying to cross the bridge to Montgomery. There was no legal Constitutional way that the marchers could be stopped, but the Alabama State Police then constantly violated the law.
Walter Crane was a British artist and book illustrator. He is considered to be the most influential, and among the most prolific, children's book creators of his generation and, along with Randolph Caldecott and Kate Greenaway, one of the strongest contributors to the child's nursery motif that the genre of English children's illustrated literature would exhibit in its developmental stages in the later 19th century.
