This mural is located in the downtown walkway. Coal mining was a big industry in Gallup from the 1880s through the 1950s. Mining jobs drew workers from across the nation and around the world. Wages were good and housing was often provided. Overtime 57 mines in the Gallup area provided coal to the railroad and to industry. The first coal miners' strike was in 1917. Coal mining had peaked. Demand declined over the next twelve years and by the great depression, half of Gallup's coal miners were out of work. During the 1933 strike, martial law was declared. The 1935 Gallup Riot took place along this alley. An unemployed union miner had been evicted from his home in Chihuahuita. He and another miner were arraigned. As one prisoner was being returned to jail, a gun went off causing a riot. Three persons were killed. Ten suspects, scapegoated as radicals, endured a lengthy trial. All were acquitted or pardoned, but many were deported. Community members who guided the development of this mural are Chris and Jennie Lee DiGregorio, Marc DePauli, Jennifer Boots Marshall, and Joe Zecca. The mural was painted in 2005. Andrew Butler, the muralist, wrestles with the three primary colors until he has created a complex spatial surface that satisfies his high standards for both communication and abstract principle. He is a well-known artist in Gallup whose first one-man show was at Crashing Thunder Gallery in 1993. More of Andrew's work can be seen at Gallup Vision Source, within Coal Street Pub, Lexington Hotel, and Hillcrest Cemetery. Additional walkway murals were painted as part of the Keep Gallup Clean and Beautiful program in a partnership between community students and artist Ric Sarracino.