Herrin massacre / Scott Doody.

• Herrin in the roaring 20's -- Hargrave secret service -- meet the U.M.W.A. -- Colonel Hunter reads the paper -- Killing time before the killing starts -- We need them genus -- the union is good for it -- Prelude to anarchy -- The death march -- Slaughter at the power house -- The hunting of men -- Caring for the wounded and burying the dead -- Arrests and trials -- As one story ends -- another begins -- Intermission -- I don't run the cemetery -- Ground penetrating radar -- Time to do some research -- The Sexton confesses -- You're done out there -- am I -- really -- Photographs tell the story -- Newspapers of the day -- The Herrin massacre house hearing reports.

• Twenty-three men were killed in Williamson County and the streets of Herrin, Illinois over a two day killing spree on June 21st and 22nd, 1922. It was the largest mass murder of non-union labor in the history of America. The event would become known around the world as the Herrin Massacre. Read about the toughest (deadliest) little city in America and the modern day hunt for the massacre victim's lost graves in the potter's field of the Herrin City Cemetery. 

Ämnesord

Gruvor  (sao)

Violence  -- Illinois -- Williamson County -- History. (LCSH)

Crime  -- Illinois -- Williamson County -- History. (LCSH)

Coal mines and mining  -- Illinois -- Williamson County -- History. (LCSH)

Strikes and lockouts  -- Coal mining -- Illinois -- Williamson County -- History. (LCSH)

Coal mines and mining.  (fast)

Crime.  (fast)

Violence.  (fast)

Strikes and lockouts  -- Coal mining. (fast)

Våld  -- historia (sao)

Strejker  -- historia (sao)

Mines and mineral resources  (LCSH)

Williamson County (Ill.)  -- History. (LCSH)

Illinois  -- Williamson County. (fast)

Förenta staterna  -- Illinois -- Herrin (sao)

Genre

History.  (fast)

Klassifikation

HV6795.W54 (LCC)

977.3993 (DDC)

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