First Workers’ Compensation law in U.S. enacted, in Wisconsin - 1911

More than 6,000 furniture workers go on strike in Grand Rapids, MI - 1911

128 convict miners, leased to a coal company under the state’s shameful convict lease system, are killed in an explosion at the Banner coal mine outside Birmingham, Ala. The miners were mostly African-Americans jailed for minor offenses - 1911