Remembering the Battle at Blair Mountain - ReImagine Appalachia

Battle of Blair Mountain

Today in Southern labor history, the Battle of Blair Mountain in West Virginia was fully underway. Beginning with company towns, grueling working conditions, corporate guns-for-hire, and assassinations, mine workers stood together and said enough was enough. Here is part one of how one of the biggest uprisings in labor history came to be. #OrganizetheSouth #UnionsforAll #laborhistory | Union of Southern Service Workers

Part 2: In the Battle of Blair mountain, the coal miners of West Virginia were completely fed up. They had seen their colleagues killed on the job, endured intolerable standards of living, and faced intense repression for their organizing. And now their comrades Sid Hatfield was dead. For days, the marching workers exchanged shots with authorities and mercenaries on the path to Mingo. Historians have said that this was the closest thing to a class war our country has ever seen. The Battle of Bla

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