This photograph appeared on the front page of the Philadelphia Inquirer on September 26, 1900 as the anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania were in turmoil amid the largest miners’ strike in the region’s history to that date. The photograph was taken as 2,000 striking mineworkers paraded through the center of Mahanoy City in northern Schuylkill County. The strike set the stage for a much larger mine strike in the summer of 1902 that led to major…
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