#miners

[beautifullittlefool1999]

[longreads]

Vigilantes at Dawn

A forgotten deportation, a family archive, and the cost of belonging.

What happens when a town deports nearly 1,200 people—and then never speaks of it again? In today's new Longreads essay, Masha Hamilton returns to Bisbee, Arizona, where in 1917 a posse of 2,000 vigilantes rounded up striking miners and drove them into the desert by cattle car. Her great-grandfather escaped over the mountains. The family never spoke of it.

Names. In a town that had sorted her family with slurs and lists, keeping her name was its own small strike. It was her way of saying: We are here, and we are not done yet.

Read Masha Hamilton's powerful essay, "Vigilantes at Dawn," on Longreads.

[rozz0]

[raduzhnayaiskorka-blog]

"Listen attentively, Megatron. I'm passing away and I won't be able to help you, but I'll give you important information. You need to find planet Earth. There are huge reserves of energon in its depths. Take possession of it and you will become the savior of Cybertron. I believe in you!"

[metamorphicmuse]

Threshold Of Discovery

[todaysdocument]

Resting with load at the head of the slope. Small boy is Jo Puma, a nipper. Jo's mother showed me the passport which shows Jo to be 14 years old, but he has no school certificate, although working in the mine. Pittston, Pa.

Record Group 102: Records of the Children's BureauSeries: National Child Labor Committee Photographs taken by Lewis Hine

Six miners pose in front of a cart inside the mine. Several, including a boy, have carbide lamps burning on their hats.

[questcequecestqueca]

Three miners 850 feet deep in the Hubert Mine, Nevadaville, Colorado, 1895