Illinois coal wars
Illinois coal wars
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Miners gathering at the railroad tracks in Virden on October 12, 1898. |
Date |
1898–1900 |
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Location |
Illinois, United States |
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Also known as |
Illinois mine wars |
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Deaths |
approximately 24 |
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The Illinois coal wars, also known as the Illinois mine wars and several other names, were a series of labor disputes between 1898 and 1900 in central and southern Illinois.
The disputes were marked by racial violence between black and white coal miners, most notably during the Battle of Virden on October 12, 1898, and the Pana massacre on April 10, 1899.[1][2][3][4]
The same conditions and organizations were also involved in similar conflicts in two southern Illinois towns: in Lauder (now Cambria, Illinois) on June 30, 1899, and in Carterville, Illinois on September 17. At Lauder a group of African-American miners traveling by train from Pana were attacked. One woman, Anna Karr, was murdered, and about twenty others wounded. And at Carterville, five more non-union African-American miners were killed in out-and-out rioting.[5] Local juries acquitted all those accused in those attacks.[6]
References
Major armed conflicts in American labor union history |
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| 19th century |
- Great Railroad Strike of 1877
- Rock Springs massacre, 1885
- Bay View Massacre, 1886
- Haymarket affair, 1886
- Thibodaux massacre, 1887
- Morewood massacre, 1891
- Homestead Strike, 1892
- Coeur d'Alene, Idaho labor strike of 1892
- Pullman Strike, 1894
- Streetcar strikes in the United States, 1895–1929
- Lattimer massacre, 1897
- Illinois Coal Wars, 1898-1899
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| 20th century |
- Streetcar strikes in the United States, 1895–1929
- Colorado Labor Wars, 1903–04
- 1905 Chicago Teamsters' strike
- Pressed Steel Car Strike of 1909
- Westmoreland County coal strike of 1910–1911
- Paint Creek–Cabin Creek strike of 1912
- Colorado Coalfield War, including the Ludlow Massacre, 1913–14
- Everett massacre, 1916
- Bisbee Deportation, 1917
- 1920 Alabama coal strike
- Battle of Matewan, 1920
- Battle of Blair Mountain, 1921
- Herrin massacre, 1922
- Hanapepe massacre, 1924
- Columbine Mine massacre, 1927
- Harlan County War, 1931–32
- Auto-Lite strike, 1934
- Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934
- 1934 West Coast waterfront strike
- Memorial Day massacre of 1937
- Hilo Massacre, 1938
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