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.

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 ridge in southern West Virginia, as an army ...

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 ...

not just for West Virginia, but for this country," said Robert Shogan, a professor at Johns Hopkins University and author of the 2004 book The Battle of Blair Mountain. The battle began in the ...

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 ...

It’s this second battle that historian Charles B. Keeney focuses on in his book, “The Road to Blair Mountain,” published by West Virginia University Press. Welcome to the discussion.

Extra History Union Busting - Battle of Blair Mountain - US History Posted: February 7, 2025 | Last updated: March 8, 2025 Matewan, West Virginia. May 19, 1920. Police Chief Sid Hatfield sits in ...

Yet deep in the coal mines of West Virginia, an integrated militia ... thus ending the Battle of Blair Mountain. Although it would take several more years for coal miners to win the key labor ...

Bullets from the Battle of Blair Mountain on display at the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum. (Irina Zhorov/For WHYY) “I don’t claim to know anything about the physical structure or where the battles ...

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 ...

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.

The second largest armed insurrection in American history, only surpassed by the American Civil War, culminated in the Battle of Blair Mountain ... only the southern West Virginia coalfields ...