The History Project - University of California, Davis
Notes about this image:A group of Welsh miners and their wives heckle "blacklegs" or scabs, many of whom are immigrants, brought in to work in the coal mines during a strike in 1871.
Citation:Tamiment Institute Library, New York University, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012. In Wayne Moquin, ed., Makers of America, Vol. 4, William Benton, Publisher, 1971, p. 27. 8.12.7
Standard:8.12-7.00 the new sources of large-scale immigration and the contribution of immigrants to the building of cities and the economy; the ways in which new social and economic patterns encouraged assimilation of newcomers into the mainstream amidst growing cultural d

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