west virginia travel guide 2013 Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/west-virginia-travel-guide-2013 Thu, 09 Jun 2016 15:11:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 West Virginia Travel Destinations http://toursmaps.com/west-virginia-travel-destinations.html http://toursmaps.com/west-virginia-travel-destinations.html#respond Fri, 10 Jun 2016 16:40:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=205556 Still, their lives were often difficult. In the coal towns, Spanish migrants (among other Europeans) were subject to intimidation from Anglo-Americans especially members of the Ku Klux Klan, who burned crosses and marched through towns, intimidating migrants because they were foreign and Catholic.2 In the mines, migrants were overworked without fair compensation. While they accepted the harsh conditions of work in the mines (including exposure to unhealthy air, dust, and the possibility of accidental death), Spanish miners did not tolerate exploitation on behalf of the coal companies. Miners were penalized for not filling coal cars to the satisfaction of managers.

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