What happened to reduce the membership and power of the Knights of Labor? Dues were raised to cover the costs of strikes so members dropped out.
During the Haymarket Riots police arrested members of the Knights of Labor and linked them to the bombings.
The government passed laws that prohibited the Knights of Labor from gaining new members.
The membership of the Knights of Labor included factory owners that decided to exclude most of the workers.

john maynard keynes developed new economic theories in response to the stock market crash of 1929. great depression of the 1930s. first and second world wars. economic boom of the 1950s.

martin luther king (1929-1968) was an activist for the african american rights, mr. king has a profile of a kind leader that built a tenacity, respect and full of hope future. he was an activist through civil disobedience and no violence pressure mechanisms. he tried to build a more egalitarian and fair society. his efforts carried a reivindication message of the civilian rights to every west corners. for that reason, he won the nobel prize in 1964.