Remembering Lattimer: Labor, Migration, and Race in Pennsylvania Anthracite Country

by Paul A. Shackel

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252083687
• ISBN13: 9780252083686
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"