Ads
related to: west virginia coal mine wars museumamazon.com has been visited by 1M+ users in the past month
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The West Virginia coal wars (1912–1921), also known as the mine wars, arose out of a dispute between coal companies and miners. The West Virginia mine wars era began with the Cabin Creek and Paint Creek strike of 1912–1913 . [ 1 ]
The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest labor uprising in United States history and is the largest armed uprising since the American Civil War. [5] [6] The conflict occurred in Logan County, West Virginia, as part of the Coal Wars, a series of early-20th-century labor disputes in Appalachia.
That's the aim of a new effort announced this past Wednesday—Juneteenth—by the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum, located in Matewan, Mingo County. The heart of the state's southern coal ...
This list of museums in West Virginia encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The West Virginia Mine Wars: An Anthology. Charleston, W.Va.: Appalachian Editions, 1990. Green, James. The Devil is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom. New York: Grove, 2015. Laurie, Clayton D. "The United States Army and the Return to Normalcy in Labor Dispute Interventions: The Case of the West ...
Sep. 6—FAIRMONT — Before she became a public-school educator, Allyson Perry was a park ranger and Civil War interpreter at the Gettysburg battlefield. After that, Perry, who teaches West ...
September 2013 – July 2014 Exploring West Virginia's coal industry, Outside the Mine focuses on the economic, social, domestic, and leisure aspects of the coal communities from the late 19th to the mid-20th centuries. The exhibit includes historical artifacts, such as a hand clothes wringer and scrip register, and historical photographs.
While making biscuits and meatloaf at a fast-food restaurant during the coronavirus pandemic, 64-year-old Cynthia Nicholson often thinks back to her husband’s coal mining days in West Virginia.