Labor Day parades have storied history in Indiana

Labor Day parades have storied history in Indiana

Labor Day crowd at the 1940 Indiana State Fair. (Photo from the Indiana Historical Society)Everyone loves a parade, as the old adage goes, and in 1886 the Knights of Labor certainly hoped this would prove true when they planned the first Labor Day celebration in Indianapolis. With one of the nation’s largest concentrations of union members, the city was ripe to embrace the relatively new tradition of Labor Day parades which had begun four years …