West Virginia Mine Wars

The Mine Wars Come Alive For Young Readers And Our Song Of The Week, This West Virginia Morning

On this West Virginia Morning, a young adult author hopes to bring the story of the struggle to unionize coal mines to today’s young readers, and our Song of the Week.

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February 25, 1903: Lawman Cunningham Leads an Armed Posse into Stanaford

On February 25, 1903, an early labor-related shootout took place at Stanaford, near Beckley. At dawn, Deputy U.S. Marshal Dan Cunningham led an armed…

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August 28 1921: Armed Miners March on Blair Mountain

In August 1921, armed coal miners from the Kanawha Valley and the southern counties of Boone, Fayette, Mingo, McDowell, and Logan gathered at Marmet in…

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