July 16 Death in the Mine Field
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July 16 Death in the Mine Field

2015-07-16

On this day in Labor History the year was 1894. Striking coal miners in Alabama killed a number of black miners. Both white and black miners were attempting to organize the southern bituminous coal fields during the 1890s. 

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