1920s
1922
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American history
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coal
coal miners
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Herrin
Illinois
John L Lewis
Ku Klux Klan
labor
labor history
Language_English
Marion
mass murder
massacre
miners
mining
murder
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southern Illinois
strikebreakers
strip mining mines
trials
true crime
unions
UWMA
Warren G Harding
Williamson
Product details
- ISBN 9781476681719
- Weight: 245g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 10 Nov 2020
- Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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In 1922, a coal miner strike spread across the United States, swallowing the heavily-unionized mining town of Herrin, Illinois. When the owner of the town's local mine hired non-union workers to break the strike, violent conflict broke out between the strikebreakers and unionized miners, who were all heavily armed. When strikebreakers surrendered and were promised safe passage home, the unionized miners began executing them before large, cheering crowds.
This book tells the cruel truth behind the story that the coal industry tried to suppress and that Herrin wants to forget. A thorough account of the massacre and its aftermath, this book sets a heartland tragedy against the rise and decline of the coal industry.
The late Greg Bailey was a history writer, journalist, novelist, playwright and former attorney. His work appeared in The Economist, Time, the New Republic, Newsweek.com, Sierra, Wired, Narratively, Ozy, History News Network and many other publications. He lived in Missouri.
