As many as 10,000 marchers, mostly miners, took part in the Labor Day parade in Uniontown.This was 1922, a strike year in which what was known as the Connellsville Coke Region was convulsed. The fight was over a union contract for miners who worked for the the likes of the H.C. Frick Co.Frick ...
In 2008, Sen. Barack Obama earned 95 percent of the black vote.President Obama beat Mitt Romney with 93 percent of the black vote in 2012.In 2016, Hillary Clinton might pitch a shut-out with black voters.Why?Donald Trump!A recent Quinnipiac national poll has Mr. Trump only managing to get the ...
Glad you asked; OK, you didn’t. I’ll tell you anyway — hold on — about my favorite presidential photo.ItÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ a picture that wouldn’t be taken today; security concerns, you know. It shows Franklin Roosevelt, in an automobile, greeting voters (some of them were voters, anyway) in ...