Description: Remembering LattimerLabor, Migration, and Race in Pennsylvania Anthracite Country Author(s): Paul A. Shackel Format: Paperback Publisher: University of Illinois Press, United States Imprint: University of Illinois Press ISBN-13: 9780252083686, 978-0252083686 Synopsis 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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Book Title: Remembering Lattimer
Number of Pages: 176 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Remembering Lattimer: Labor, Migration, and Race in Pennsylvania Anthracite Country
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication Year: 2018
Subject: Transportation, Safety, History, Business
Item Height: 229 mm
Type: Textbook
Author: Paul A. Shackel
Series: Working Class in American History
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Paperback
