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Remembering Lattimer - Labor, Migration, and Race in Pennsylvania Anthracite Country (Hardcover)
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Remembering Lattimer - Labor, Migration, and Race in Pennsylvania Anthracite Country (Hardcover)
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On September 10, 1897, a group of 400 striking coal miners--workers
of Polish, Slovak, and Lithuanian descent or origin--marched on
Lattimer, Pennsylvania. There, law enforcement officers fired
without warning into the protesters, killing nineteen miners and
wounding thirty-eight others. The bloody day quickly faded into
history. Paul A. Shackel confronts the legacies and lessons of the
Lattimer event. Beginning with a dramatic retelling of the
incident, Shackel traces how the violence, and the acquittal of the
deputies who perpetrated it, spurred membership in the United Mine
Workers. By blending archival and archaeological research with
interviews, he weighs how the people living in the region
remember--and forget--what happened. Now in positions of power, the
descendants of the slain miners have themselves become rabidly
anti-union and anti-immigrant as Dominicans and other Latinos
change the community. Shackel shows how the social, economic, and
political circumstances surrounding historic Lattimer connect in
profound ways to the riven communities of today. Compelling and
timely, Remembering Lattimer restores an American tragedy to our
public memory.
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