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Episode 9September 9, 2022

#22 Whose America?, ep. 1: Rough Extraction

5:34:35
September 9, 2022
Labor HistoryCoal MinersWest VirginiaBattle of Blair Mountain

#22 Whose America?, ep. 1: Rough Extraction

Episode 95:34:35September 9, 2022

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In August 1921, 10,000-20,000 armed coal miners marched on Mingo County, West Virginia. Before it was over, they would storm a mountainside under fire from entrenched machine guns, and while being bombed from the air. It was the largest and most serious armed insurrection in US history since the Civil War. This episode discusses the West Virginia Coal Mine Wars and The Battle of Blair Mountain.

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