Books, Articles, and Other Material Relating to African American Miners

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BOOKS

Ronald L. Lewis, Black Coal Miners in America: Race, Class, and Community Conflict, 1780-1980 (Lexington, 1987)
Dorothy Schwieder, Joseph Hraba, and Elmer Schwieder, Buxton: A Black Utopia in the Heartland (Iowa City, 2003)
Joe William Trotter, Jr., Coal, Class, and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia 1915-32 (Urbana, 1990)
Robert Armstead, Black Days, Black Dust: The Memories of an African American Coal Miner (Knoxville, 2002)
Herbert G. Gutman, "The Negro and the United Mine Workers of America: The Career and Letters of Richard L. Davis and Something of Their Meaning, 1890-1900", The Negro and the American Labor Movement, Julius Jacobson, ed. (New York, 1968), 49-127.
Herbert G. Gutman, "Labor in the Land of Lincoln: Coal Miners on the Prairie", Power and Culture: Essays on the American Working Class, Ira Berlin, ed. (New York, 1987), 117-212.
Ed Diaz, "Reexamining the Past: A Different Perspective of Black Strikebreakers in King County's Coal Mining Industry", More Voices, New Stories: King County, Washington's First 150 Years, Mary C. Wright, ed. (Seattle, 2002), 70-92.
Ernest Moore, The Coal Miner Who Came West (Seattle, 1982)
Edwin L. Brown and Colin J. Davis, ed., It is Union and Liberty: Alabama Coal Miners and the UMW (Tuscaloosa, 1999)
Daniel Letwin, The Challenge of Interracial Unionism: Alabama Coal Miners, 1878-1921 (Chapel Hill, 1998)
Brian Kelly, Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-21 (Urbana, 2001)
Ancella R. Bickley and Lynda Ann Ewen, Memphis Tennessee Garrison: The Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman (Athens, 2001)
ARTICLES

Robert A. Campbell, "Blacks and the Coal Mines of Western Washington, 1888-1896", Pacific Northwest Quarterly 73:4 (October 1982):146-55.
Caroline A. Waldron, "'Lynch-law Must Go!': Race, Citizenship, and the Other in an American Coal Mining Town", Journal of American Ethnic History 20:1 (Fall 2000):50-77.
Janice A. Beran, "Diamonds in Iowa: Blacks, Buxton, and Baseball", Journal of African American History Inaugural Issue (Winter 2002):56-69.
Peter Gottlieb, "Black Miners and the 1925-28 Bituminous Coal Strike: The Colored Committee of Non-Union Miners, Montour Mine No. 1, Pittsburgh Coal Company", Labor History 28:2 (Spring 1987):233-241.
Barbara Smith, "The Franklins: A Barbour County Family Story", Goldenseal 16:2 (Autumn 1990):38-42.
Tim R. Massey, "'I Didn't Think I'd Live to See 1950': Looking Back With Columbus Avery", Goldenseal 8:1 (Spring 1982):32-40.
Yvonne Snyder Farley, "Homecoming", Goldenseal 5:4 (October-December 1979):7-16.
Herbert G. Gutman, "Reconstruction in Ohio: Negroes in the Hocking Valley Coal Mines in 1873 and 1874", Labor History 3:3 (Fall 1962):243-264.
Mark Stern, "Black Strikebreakers in the Coal Fields: King County, Washington -- 1891", Journal of Ethnic Studies 5:3 (Fall, 1977):60-70.
Charles W. Simmons, John R. Rankin, U. G. Carter, "Negro Coal Miners in West Virginia, 1875-1925", The Midwest Journal 6:1 (Spring 1954):60-69.
Michael M. Meador, "The Blacks of Bluefield", Goldenseal 13:4 (Winter 1987):19-27.
Sharon L. Gardner, "Memories of a Mining Family: Tony Armstead Recalls Four Generations", Goldenseal 26:4 (Winter 2000):52-57.
Jean Battlo, "Mining in the Melting Pot: The African American Influx into the McDowell County Mines", Goldenseal 23:4 (Winter 1997):46-51.
Connie Karickhoff, "Photographer William H. Jordan: A Portrait of Ansted's Black Community", Goldenseal 24:4 (Winter 1998):44-51.
Reginald Millner, "Conversations with the 'Ole Man': The Life and Times of a Black Appalachian Coal Miner", Goldenseal 5:1 (January-March 1979):58-64.
Ross Ballard II, " Doing Fine at 99: A Visit with Melvin Harris ", Goldenseal 28:1 (Spring 2002):30-35.
Victor Hicken, "The Virden and Pana Mine Wars of 1898", Illinois State Historical Society Journal 52:2 (1959):263-278.
John H. Keiser, "Black Strikebreakers and Racism in Illinois, 1865-1900", Illinois State Historical Society Journal 65:3 (1972):313-326.
Felix L. Armfield, "Fire on the Prairies: The 1895 Spring Valley Race Riot", Journal of Illinois History 3:3 (Autumn):185-200.
David G. Smith, "From Virginia Farms to Iowa Coal Mines", Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society 16:2 (Fall 1997):106-134.
THESES

Paul Richards, "Racism in the Southern Coal Industry, 1890-1910", (M.A. thesis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1969).
John M. Robb, "The Migration of Negro Coal Miners from Alabama to Southeast Kansas in 1899", (M.A. thesis, Kansas State College of Pittsburg, 1965).
Johnetta L. Jones, "Negroes in Jackson County, 1850-1910", (M.A. thesis, Southern Illinois University, 1971).
Robert A. Campbell, "An Added Objection: The Use of Blacks in the Coal Mines of Washington, 1880-1896", (M.A. thesis, University of British Columbia, 1978).
Frederick O. Jackson, "The Impact of the Roslyn Coal Miners' Strike on African American Migration into the State of Washington, 1888 Through 1910", (M.A. thesis, Western Washington University, 1995).
John C. Hanscom, "Company Coal Town: Franklin and the Oregon Improvement Company, 1880-1896", (Green River Community College, 1988). [Note -- It is not known whether this is a thesis, seminar paper, etc]
Eleaner Anna Burhorn, "Strike of Coal Miners at Pana, Illinois, 1898-1899", (M.A. thesis, Washington University, 1949). [Note -- University is in Missouri]
Nancy Ruth Elmore, "The Birmingham Coal Strike of 1908", (M.A. thesis, University of Alabama, 1966).
Gerald Edgar Allen, "The Negro Coal Miner in the Pittsburgh District", (M.A. thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 1923).
James Tamplin Laing, "The Negro Miner in West Virginia", (Ph.D. dissertation, The Ohio State University, 1933).
OTHER MATERIAL

Martin Tuohy, "African-American Coal Miners and Iron Workers in Western Indiana, 1873-1875: The Genesis of a Rural, Biracial Working Class", (M.A. seminar paper, History Department, University of Illinois-Chicago, 1996).