Roosevelt and the Civil Rights Movement in the United States

The following year, then roosevelt got involved with issues of labor and capital t a we 've been discussing in class as well. In 19 o two, there was a coal strike, or a strike by coal workers,. And we talked but about the conditions of labor. You can imagine the conditions these men were laboring under. A strike in the coal mines was particularly important and significant to the country because coal was the primary way that americans heated their homes.