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

A group of African American and immigrant workers at Midvale Steel and Ordinance Company's Plant in Coatesville, Pa. c. 1910. Pennsylvania had enormous demand for labor in steel mills, and 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. 1910

Melanie Pezdirtz

Courtesy of Hagley Museum & Library

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Still Image