"Cry of foreigner, foreigner..." In the weeks after the Lattimer Massacre, the American Federation of Labor (AFL) responded in print. They deplored the violence and their anti-immigrant rhetoric used to defend the Luzerne County sheriff for murdering 19 unarmed mineworkers. Read their response and their appeal to the nation's workers.
A bleak winter street in Lattimer, Pennsylvania hides a violent truth. This 1898 illustration captures a Coal Region patch town just months after immigrant mineworkers were killed there for demanding fair treatment. Read the Full Story.
A reporter in Hazleton interviewed a working class woman near the site of the Lattimer Massacre in 1897.
This journal documents a year of work at two anthracite collieries in Schuylkill County.
In 1897, a former breaker boy penned a poem in remembrance of the child laborers of the Coal Region.