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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...
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.
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.
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. [3]
Sep 10, 2020 · 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.
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.
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.
