Richard L. Davis and the Color Line in Ohio Coal - A Hocking Valley Mine Labor Organizer, 1862-1900

Born in Roanoke County, Virginia, on the eve of the Emancipation Proclamation, Richard L. Davis was an early mine labor organizer in Rendville, Ohio. One year after the 1884 Great Hocking Valley Coal Strike, which lasted nine months, Davis wrote the first of many letters to the National Labor Tribune and the United Mine Workers Journal. One of two African Americans at the founding convention of United Mine Workers of America in 1890, he served as a member of the National Executive Board in 1886-97. Davis called upon white and black miners to unite against wage slavery. This biography provides a detailed portrait of one of America's more influential labor organizers.

List of contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

1-Richard L. Davis

2-Rendville

3-The Great Hocking Valley Strike

4-A Year to Remember

5-The Road to Prominence

6-A Year of Transition

7-National Recognition

8-A Private in the Ranks

9-A Life of Devotion

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Frans H. Doppen is a professor of social studies education and chair of the Department of Teacher Education at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.

Product details

• Authors: Frans H. Doppen
• Publisher: McFarland
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.10.2016
• EAN: 9781476667393
• ISBN: 978-1-4766-6739-3
• No. of pages: 194
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 290 g
• Series: Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories