Striking coal miners gather on a street in a company town in Birmingham in 1933. Alabama Gov. Benjamin Meek Miller reacted to the strikes by deploying the state militia.
Birmingham Coal Strike, 1933
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Courtesy of Birmingham Public Library Archives
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