MATEWAN, W.Va. — The West Virginia Mine Wars Museum, located in Matewan, West Virginia, is launching the Mingo County Black History Project, according to a news release. In the Mine Wars era ...

MATEWAN, W.Va. — The West Virginia Mine Wars Museum recently launched its new exhibit “The Children of Mother Jones: West Virginia Educators’ Strikes as Care Work.” “I am excited about ...

The West Virginia Mine Wars Museum in Mingo County is just one example of a historically significant location with an unknown road ahead without these federal funds. "We are a grassroots ...

“Explosions like Monongah were kind of the exception rather than the rule,” says Lloyd Tomlinson, education coordinator at the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum. Out of thirty houses on one ...

Just over 100 years ago, West Virginia miners began the march ... going to build and we really leaned on the community,” Mine Wars Museum Executive Director Kenzie New Walker said.

A push to organize the coal fields in the ensuing years led to the 1912-1921 West Virginia mine wars, the area’s first major effort to unionize. In the decades following, safety regulations ...

A push to organize the coalfields in the ensuing years led to the 1912-21 West Virginia mine wars, the area’s first major effort to unionize. In the decades that followed, safety regulations ...

A push to organize the coal fields in the ensuing years led to the 1912-1921 West Virginia mine wars, the area's first major effort to unionize. In the decades following, safety regulations ...