International Unemployment Day – 89th Anniversary

International Unemployment Day (March 6, 1930) was a coordinated international campaign of marches and demonstrations, marked by hundreds of thousands of people in major cities around the world taking to the streets to protest mass unemployment associated with the Great Depression.

In the United States, where the unemployment rate was 9% in 1930 (and rose to 25% in 1933), 30 American cities saw mass demonstrations as part of the campaign.