Richard L. Davis and the Color Line in Ohio Coal souvenirs The first officer since George

The first officer since George Washington to become a four-star general in the United States Army

even though his name is still one of the most cited in the history of science and technology

the Federals taking it mile-by-mile

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Richard L. Davis and the Color Line in Ohio Coal souvenirs The first officer since GeorgeComing Soon! Born in Roanoke County, Virginia, on the eve of the Emancipation Proclamation, Richard L. Davis was an early mine labor organizer in Rendville, Ohio. One year after the 1884 Great Hocking Valley Coal Strike, which lasted nine months, Davis wrote the first of many letters to the National Labor Tribune and the United Mine Workers Journal. One of two African Americans at the founding convention of United Mine Workers of America in 1890, he