October 9, 2015, Friday - Remembering the Lattimer Massacre, with Dr. Paul Shackel at Mill City Museum

Time: 7 – 8 pm (light refreshments from 6 – 7 pm)

Location: Mill City Museum, 704 South 2nd Street

Remembering the Lattimer Massacre, with Dr. Paul Shackel

Listen to a lecture by Dr. Paul Shackel, chair of the department of anthropology at University of Maryland, about the Lattimer Massacre, an important but largely forgotten moment in American labor history. The talk is the keynote address of the 2015 Midwest Historical Archaeology Conference.

In the Lattimer Massacre in 1897, immigrant coal miners in Lattimer, Pennsylvania, went on strike to gain similar wages to their white, English-speaking coworkers. After a confrontation with the sheriff and his deputies, 25 miners were killed and another 40 were wounded.

Dr. Paul Shackel received his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1987 and joined the department of anthropology at the University of Maryland in 1996. He currently works with graduate and undergraduate students on the Anthracite Heritage Project, a program that includes oral histories, documentary research  and archaeology in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania. The project initially focused on the 1897 Lattimer Massacre and is now exploring issues related to immigration history in the coal patch towns in Northeastern Pennsylvania.

Free.