MATEWAN, W.Va. — In August 1921, an estimated 10,000 union coal miners clashed with anti-union figures in Logan County, sparking the largest armed insurrection in U.S. history outside the Civil War ...
Monday, Aug. 25 marked 104 years since the march to Blair Mountain began. The march, and ultimately the battle, were one of the last events of the West Virginia Mine Wars, which got their spark in ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Virginia Tech lecturer Taulby Edmondson discussed unionization efforts in the West Virginia mining industry that led to a series of armed conflicts ...
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The Legacy of Blair Mountain: The persevering fight for workers' rights a century later
A single historic placard, easily missed by those driving through, is the only sign that anything happened on Blair Mountain, an isolated, rugged area in Logan County that was the site of the largest ...
A look at local history reveals that Logan County has been in the national headlines numerous times for various reasons. From the Civil War burning of the Logan County Courthouse to the Hatfield-McCoy ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. 100 years ago, in the hills of West Virginia, Black, white and European immigrant coal miners banded together to demand better pay and safer ...
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