by Eric Persaud A conflict between working-class people and companies, centered on racial injustice, unhealthy working conditions leading to black lung disease and death, and wage inequity sounds like a newspaper headline from today. Instead, in the graphic novel Trouble! at Coal Creek by Austin Sauerbrei, the year is 1891 and focused on the Coal Creek War in Tennessee. The Coal Creek War was an armed conflict between White coal miners, who worked for unfair wages in dangerous conditions, and coal companies who replaced the striking workers with Black convicts. The convicts were leased to the coal companies by the… Read More