Title: Today in history
Description: Provides information on the George Gershwin opera Porgy and Bess. Links to information on the composer, author Dubose Heyward, and on life in the South of the period. Provides information and links on the Rock Springs, Wy. massacre of Chinese mine workers in 1885.
Subjects: Rock Springs Massacre, Rock Springs, Wyo., 1885, Coal miners, Labor unions, History, Chinese, Race relations
Places: Wyoming, Rock Springs, Rock Springs (Wyo.)
People: George Gershwin (1898-1937), DuBose Heyward (1885-1940)
Time periods: 19th century