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Virden Mine Riot of 1898
Flyer in Birmingham, AL in 1898 from the Virden Mine Management
Newspaper Articles about the Virden Mine Riot of 1898
Picture of Mother Jones, Union Labor Leader buried at Mt Olive, Macoupin Co, IL
ONeil House in Virden, IL - used by Union Miners in the 1898 Strike. Pictures of Kate ONeil, son William and Kate's mother Sarah McCranor
Union Miners' Cemetery in Mt Olive, IL donated by S Joan Miley
Coal Miners' Side of the Story donated by Larry Clark
The Virden and Pana Mine Wars of 1898 article by Victor Hicken
Mine Union Radicalism in Macoupin and Montgomery Counties (IL) by Victor Hicken
Book - Bloody Mine Riot of Virden, Illinois 1898 - Lukins - Ranch 1922 - 1928 Chadwick, MO.
Book - Mother Jones The Miners' Angel, A Portrait