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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One hundred years ago, in the hills of West Virginia, Black, white, and European immigrant coal miners banded together to demand better pay and safer working conditions and were met with machine guns.