In August 1921, an estimated 10,000 union coal miners clashed with anti-union figures in Logan County, sparking the largest ...

“You can fight the government of West Virginia, but by god, you can’t fight the government of the United States.” - Frank Keeney A lot of what happened at Blair Mountain never was repeated by the ...

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 ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS) — The ARC Appalachia team hosted a town hall discussion Wednesday with some of the cast and crew behind WCHS’ exclusive documentary “The Legacy of Blair Mountain.” The full ...

As I write this, hundreds of people from all across the country are marching in West Virginia as a part of the March on Blair Mountain – a grassroots event to save the historic Blair Mountain, site of ...

In 1921, thousands of miners fought a pitched battle to unionize the coal fields of southern West Virginia. The dispute, whose epicenter was at the Blair Mountain mines, remains one of the largest ...

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 ...