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The Road to Blair Mountain

Saving a Mine Wars Battlefield from King Coal
  • Chuck Keeney
2021
West Virginia University Press

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  • A Blair Mountain coal miner with his rifle slung over his shoulder, 1921.
    Q&A

    A Century Ago, West Virginia Miners Took Up Arms Against King Coal

    In 1921, twenty thousand armed miners in West Virginia marched on the coal bosses and were met with bombs and submachine guns.
    by Arvind Dilawar, Chuck Keeney via Jacobin on June 23, 2021
  • Photo taken from behind two men in a machine gun nest
    Book Review

    ‘The Road to Blair Mountain’

    It’s the biggest battle on U.S. soil that most Americans have never heard of.
    by Jim Branscome via The Daily Yonder on October 1, 2020
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