The Bisbee Deportation
The Bisbee Deportation was the illegal kidnapping and deportation of 1,300 mostly immigrant copper miners from Bisbee, Arizona in July, 1917. The miners were members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, or Wobblies), on strike against the Phelps Dodge mining company. The authorities sent them on a 16-hour train ride, without food or […]
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