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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.
Coal Wars. Tennessee miners attacking Fort Anderson during the Coal Creek War in 1892. The Coal Wars were a series of armed labor conflicts in the United States, roughly between 1890 and 1930. Although they occurred mainly in the East, particularly in Appalachia, there was a significant amount of violence in Colorado after the turn of the century.
Hillbilly Highway. In the United States, the Hillbilly Highway is the out-migration of Appalachians from the Appalachian Highlands region to industrial cities in northern, midwestern, and western states, primarily in the years following World War II in search of better-paying industrial jobs and higher standards of living.
At least 162 injured. One mill guard death. The United States textile workers' strike of 1934, colloquially known later as The Uprising of '34[4][2][1] was the largest textile strike in the labor history of the United States, involving 400,000 textile workers from New England, the Mid-Atlantic states and the U.S. Southern states, lasting twenty ...
978-1-59403-086-4. OCLC. 57579375. Black Rednecks and White Liberals is a collection of six essays by Thomas Sowell. The collection, published in 2005, explores various aspects of race and culture, both in the United States and abroad. The first essay, the book's namesake, traces the origins of the "ghetto" African-American culture to the ...
The Year of the Discovery. Categories: Films about the labor movement. Documentary films about politics. Documentary films about economics.
A U.K. television story of one woman's fight for freedom from modern-day slavery, based on the experience of Mende Nazer, a British author, human rights activist, and a former slave in Sudan. Ill Gotten Gains. 1997. Independent film about the Atlantic slave trade. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
Matewan. Matewan (/ ˈmeɪtwɒn /) is a 1987 American independent [2][3] drama film written and directed by John Sayles, and starring Chris Cooper (in his film debut), James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell and Will Oldham, with David Strathairn, Kevin Tighe and Gordon Clapp in supporting roles. [4] The film dramatizes the events of the Battle of ...