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Springfield, Illinois marker Black Union Activities Honorary

Springfield, Illinois marker Black Union Activities Honorary

The official Illinois historical marker, which stressed the practices and activism of black coal miners in Illinois on June 17, 2025, was dedicated to the Washington streets in the south-west corner of Springfield. This new addition to the cultural culture of state capital stands in 1908 near the 1908 Springfield Race Raji National Monument.

“Henry Stephens, 1869-1939”, Marker, Stephen and African American miners in Illinois, explain the efforts of the north of the Jim Crow period. I have investigated Stephens as part of a higher project in a book in 1860-1940 in Illinois, and the story is more interesting in the marker. The construction of the marker made a collective effort and felt proud to memorize an activist all involved. As people dedicated, they wanted to know the famous person received a historic marker. This shows how much work is being done for the concepts of the markers and the popular concepts of history. This is the first historical marker who acknowledges the history of black miners in the history of Illinois. Poet and journalist Carl use the story of “Henry Stephensin words” through “Henry Stephensin words” poem and journalist Carl Sandburg. Sandburg always claimed that the poem was “a transcript” of Stephens’s words and asked us to imagine what the solidarity means.

SPRINGFIELD marks the title of this historic marker, Illinois, Stephen’s place in 1917. Credit: Rosemary Foreure

Marker reads the text:

“In 1917, near this site, an Union Miner Henry Stephens, supported the holiday and boycott of tram workers and boycott with his head and dinner bucket ‘dinner.

Vice President of Confederation Alexander Stephens wanted to freedom in Stephens Lincoln, the offspring of the sowing of the sowing. Black men have worked in Springfield’s coal mines since the 1860s. In the 1890s, some were the most dangerous work machines in the mine. When the choice of the car was stuck, the backfire hit the fire runner.

Solidarity promise, American mine workers are the leadership of black miners to join the United States unified mines. The union pledged the union along the race lines. Until 1908, there was a black president of an ethnic association of a local mixture in the area.

Stephens, workplace and civil rights, while trying to leave Springfield theaters in 1907 in 1907, and he led the Springfield-colored business men’s association. Thanks to their activity, Springfield’s black miners, in the history of Illinois, was first pushed a provision in the Union Agreement, which prohibits discrimination.

Stephens told the poet and journalist Carl Sandburg, Umwa did not eliminate his job discrimination. ‘The unity means to combine. But the mines have been twenty-five years and the white man never let Negro never. ‘

Sandburg Immortal Stephensin words and black miners of Springfield “Henry Stephens” and the most popular poem, ‘people, yes.’ ‘

William G. Pomeroy Foundation, Mother Jones Foundage Project, Mother Jones Foundation, Springfield and Central Illinois is funded by the African American Museum and Illinois State Historical Society.

The event was united by the United Mine employees of the United States of American mines in the American local console in the American International Willie McGuire, Willie McGuire. Credit: Rosemary’s fortification
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