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Richard L. Davis and the Color Line in Ohio Coal - A Hocking Valley Mine Labor Organizer, 1862-1900 (Paperback)
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Richard L. Davis and the Color Line in Ohio Coal - A Hocking Valley Mine Labor Organizer, 1862-1900 (Paperback)
Series: Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies
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Born on the eve of the Emancipation Proclamation in Roanoke County,
Virginia, Richard L. Davis moved to Rendville, Ohio in 1882 where
he became a checkweighman and early mine labor organizer. Founded
in 1879 by Chicago coal operator, William P. Rend, Rendville
survives today as the smallest incorporated community in Ohio. In
1886, one year after the Great Hocking Valley Strike, Davis wrote
his first letter to the National Labor Tribune. On January 22,
1890, he was one of only two African Americans who attended the
founding convention of the United Mine Workers of America in
Columbus, Ohio. Between December 1890 and April 1899, with one
exception, Davis wrote 168 letter, first to the editor of the
National Labor Tribune and later the United Mine Workers Journal.
In his letters Davis strongly advocated for an end to the color
line and for white and colored miners to unite against wage
slavery. After serving five years on the executive board of Ohio's
District Six, in 1896 Davis became the second African American to
be elected to the National Executive Board. Blacklisted, after
serving two terms, the Sage of Rendville, fell on hard times only
to suffer an untimely death in 1900.
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