Illinois coal wars

Illinois coal wars
	Miners gathering at the railroad tracks in Virden on October 12, 1898.
Date	1898–1900
Location	Illinois, United States
Also known as	Illinois mine wars
Deaths	approximately 24

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

^ http://minewar.org/
^ http://www.legendsofamerica.com/il-virden.html
^ http://www.massaflcio.org/node/3363
^ http://www.lib.niu.edu/2006/iht1320610.html
^ Encyclopedia of American race riots By Walter C. Rucker, James N. Upton, page 673
^ Bloody Williamson: A Chapter in American Lawlessness By Paul M. Angle

External links

McLean County Coal Company Collection, McLean County Museum of History

[1] ttp://minewar.org/

[2] ttp://www.legendsofamerica.com/il-virden.html

[3] ttp://www.massaflcio.org/node/3363

[4] ttp://www.lib.niu.edu/2006/iht1320610.html

[5] Encyclopedia of American race riots By Walter C. Rucker, James N. Upton, page 673

[6] Bloody Williamson: A Chapter in American Lawlessness By Paul M. Angle

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v t e Major armed conflicts in American labor union history
19th century	Great Railroad Strike, 1877 Rock Springs massacre, 1885 Bay View massacre, 1886 Haymarket affair, 1886 Thibodaux massacre, 1887 Morewood massacre, 1891 Cotton pickers' strike of 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
20th century	Streetcar strikes in the United States, 1895–1929 Colorado Labor Wars, 1903–1904 1905 Chicago teamsters' strike 1907 San Francisco streetcar strike Pressed Steel Car strike of 1909 Westmoreland County coal strike of 1910–1911 Paint Creek–Cabin Creek strike of 1912 1913 Ipswich Mills strike Colorado Coalfield War, including the Ludlow Massacre, 1913–1914 Copper Country strike of 1913–1914 Everett massacre, 1916 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, 1931–1932 West Coast waterfront strike, 1934 Gulf Coast longshoremen's strike, 1935 Memorial Day massacre, 1937 Hilo massacre, 1938
Related articles	List of incidents of civil unrest in the United States Union violence in the United States Anti-union violence in the United States List of worker deaths in United States labor disputes
Portal:Organized Labour

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