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Lattimer is a village and census-designated place (CDP) in Hazle Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 554 at the 2010 census.
The Lattimer massacre refers to a Luzerne County sheriff's posse killing at least 19 unarmed striking immigrant anthracite miners at the Lattimer mine near Hazleton, Pennsylvania on September 10, 1897.
After a series of broken promises from the mine owner, the 300 to 400 miners, mostly east European immigrants, peacefully marched to a coal mine in the tiny town of Lattimer in the Anthracite Coal district to support the new United Mine Workers of America.
Mar 13, 2019 · Miners marched to Lattimer, Pennsylvania, on September 10, 1897, to protest harsh working conditions. Wikicommons. At the western entrance of the coal patch town of Lattimer, in Luzerne...
By Bruce e. Beans. In. early September 1897, a mining strike in the anthracite coal region of Northeastern Pennsylvania culminated in one of the deadliest labor incidents in U.S. history: the Lattimer Massacre.
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How a 1897 Massacre of Pennsylvania Coal Miners Morphed From a Galvanizing Crisis to Forgotten History. Dr. Paul Shackel discusses contested memory and meaning of the 1897 Lattimer massacre in an article for Smithsonian.
Formed in 1890, the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) could not ignore the strategic importance of the anthracite fields of Pennsylvania. A compact area of 462 square miles produced almost all of the hard coal, a vitally important domestic fuel, in the United States. The mines employed over 100,000 men and boys. They, as all indus
