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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


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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