In 1921, Blair Mountain was the site of a ten-day battle between coal company supporters and miners trying to unionize the coal fields of southern West Virginia. It is considered the largest armed ...

The second largest armed insurrection in American history, only surpassed by the American Civil War, culminated in the Battle of Blair Mountain, near the town of Logan, W. Va., during the late ...

The Battle of Blair Mountain saw 10,000 West Virginia coal miners march in protest of perilous work conditions, squalid housing and low wages, among other grievances. They set out from the small ...

It’s largely absent from history books, but for labor scholars the 1921 battle at Blair Mountain is legendary. Years of struggle between miners and coal-company bosses came to a head at this ...

This month marks the 100th anniversary since the end of the Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921, when as many as 20,000 coal miners in southern West Virginia waged armed combat against a private army ...

They laid down their weapons and surrendered, thus ending the Battle of Blair Mountain. Although it would take several more years for coal miners to win the key labor victories they sought ...

a professor at Johns Hopkins University and author of the 2004 book The Battle of Blair Mountain. The battle began in the summer of 1921 with a miners' rally in Charleston. The famed labor ...

They were met on Blair Mountain by the anti-union Logan County sheriff. At least 16 men died in the 12-day battle, which included planes dropping bombs on the miners’ camps, before they ...

At the Battle of Blair Mountain, thousands of miners clashed with sheriff’s deputies in the largest insurrection since the Civil War. A still from a news reel filmed and produced circa 1921 ...

The Battle of Blair Mountain: The Story of America’s Largest Labor Uprising, by Robert Shogan. Westview Press. 304 pages. $26. The Battle of Blair Mountain was almost cataclysmic. Now ...

The first Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921 was a bloody chapter in Appalachian history. The armed uprising of miners against coal barons and anti-union lawmen lasted five days, beginning with ...

MATEWAN, W.Va. — In 2021, the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum and its partners are commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Blair Mountain with an schedule of events starting this ...