Workers at the Midvale Steel Plant in Coatesville, Pa.

Workers at the Midvale Steel Plant in Coatesville, Pa.

Steel mill workers, Midvale Steel and Ordinance Company, Coatesville, Pennsylvania

An African-American worker and a white worker at Midvale Steel and Ordinance Company's plant in Coatesville, PA c. 1920. Co-operation between African American and white workers was essential to Pennsylvania's prominent steel industry, because of the high labor involved in producing steel. Within a decade of incorporating African-American workers, Midvale Steel Company treated their African American and immigrant workers uncommonly well, even compared to other mills in the North.

Hagley Museum & Library

WCU HIS 601/HON 451 Great Migration and Digital Storytelling, Spring 2016.

c. 1920

Melanie Pezdirtz

Courtesy of Hagley Museum & Library

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