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Crime History: Alabama mine explosion kills 122 convicts

By Scott McCabe
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Crime History: Alabama mine explosion kills 122 convicts

On this day, April 8, in 1911, a coal mine explosion in Littleton, Ala., claimed the lives of 128 men — 122 of whom were convicts loaned from prisons.

Of the prisoners killed at the Banner Coal Mine that day, all but five were black.

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