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THANK A UNION - Cecil Roberts President United Mine Workers of America - Battle of Blair Mountain
"When you see all these people with a social security check, you think that fell out of the sky? Thank a union!"


The Blair Mountain Battle with American System TV
Full Interview Evan Papp discusses the largest armed insurrection in the U.S. since the Civil War with the American System Network. This...


Voices from the Centennial March to Blair Mountain - Organized by the United Mine Workers of America
“So why did we want to recreate this March? Because we are bound and determined that the history of our forefathers will not be taken away from us by any rich person or any government.” Cecil Roberts, President of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) One hundred years ago, in a rural mountainous stretch in middle America, a violent labor uprising took place, a battle of good versus evil, rebellion against wage slavery, a fight for freedom against tyranny -- yet this hist


Remembering 1921: The Battle of Blair Mountain - David Rovics Audio Essay
“There is another America. Remember it. Those miners died for you. You should at least know who they were. And then let's all follow...


The Road to Blair Mountain - Saving a Mine Wars Battlefield from King Coal
“So the idea was to recruit basically a third black miners, a third immigrant, and a third native white and cramp them all together and...
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