Whose America?
An exploration of American labor wars and the struggle for workers' rights, from the coal mines to the inner cities.
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#21 Whose America?: Prologue
Here is the first episode – well, the prologue – for a brand new Martyr Made series called Whose America?, on the American labor wars. This is a series I've been working on for a while, and a story very close to my heart.
#22 Whose America?, ep. 1: Rough Extraction
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.
#23 Whose America?, pt. 2: Inner City Blues
The Great Migration of 1915-1960 saw over six million African Americans move from the rural South to the big cities of the North and West. This episode tells the story of the battle for control of the Ocean Hill-Brownsville school district in New York City – one of the most intense periods of racial conflict in recent American history, which led to a split in the alliance between American blacks and American Jews.
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