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Mar 13, 2019 · At the western entrance of the coal patch town of Lattimer, in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, sits a rough-cut shale boulder, about eight feet tall, surrounded by neatly trimmed bushes.
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. [1][page needed][2][page needed] The miners were mostly of Polish, Slovak, Lithuanian and German ethnicities. Scores more miners were wounded in ...
The Lattimer Massacre of striking miners by the Sheriff of Luzerne County caused a nation-wide uproar. Though the actual numbers of the murdered and wounded at the Lattimer Massacre in Luzerne County are unknown, many scholars agree that 19 miners were killed and at least 39 were wounded. After a series of broken promises from the mine owner ...
Sep 10, 2020 · Today, September 10, 2020, marks 123 years since the Lattimer Massacre occurred. On Sept. 10, 1897, 19 mine workers were killed and dozens were wounded in the Lattimer Massacre. A strike began some weeks prior, as miners from eastern Pennsylvania protested extremely dangerous working conditions, unpaid overtime, and the company store.
Dr. Paul Shackel discusses contested memory and meaning of the 1897 Lattimer massacre in an article for Smithsonian. The article describes how the deaths of these 19 immigrant coal miners served to unify the labor movement at the time, while business leaders pushed to erase the event from public memory.
On Sept. 10, 1897, 19 mine workers were killed and dozens were wounded in the Lattimer Massacre. A strike began weeks prior as miners from eastern Pennsylvania protested extremely dangerous working conditions, unpaid overtime, and the company store. About 400 miners, mostly immigrants, began an unarmed peaceful march to Lattimer to support the ...
coal region of Northeastern Pennsylvania culminated in one of the deadliest labor incidents in U.S. history: the Lattimer Massacre. In the previous weeks, protesting low wages and high rents and company store prices, nearly 5,000 miners had gone on strike in the Hazleton, Pennsylvania, area. The strike came at the end of the crippling four-year
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