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Posted on August 25, 2020August 29, 2020 by Erik Chipchase

On this day, 25 August 1921, the Battle of Blair Mountain, the largest armed rebellion in the US since the civil war, began. For five days in late August and early September, 1921 in Logan County, West Virginia, 10,000 striking coal miners battled with armed strikebreakers and deputies following the killing of miners and their supporters in Welch and Sharples. Faced with the overwhelming firepower of US federal troops and even the air force, the miners eventually surrendered or returned to their homes.
More info in our podcast episode on the West Virginia mine wars: https://workingclasshistory.com/2018/06/09/wch-e7-the-west-virginia-mine-wars-1902-1922/
Pictured: one of the strikers https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1510678762450602/?type=3

Posted on August 25, 2020January 31, 2021 by Erik Chipchase

workingclasshistory:

On this day, 25 August 1921, the Battle of Blair Mountain, the largest armed rebellion in the US since the civil war, began. For five days in late August and early September, 1921 in Logan County, West Virginia, 10,000 striking coal miners battled with armed strikebreakers and deputies following the killing of miners and their supporters in Welch and Sharples. Faced with the overwhelming firepower of US federal troops and even the air force, the miners eventually surrendered or returned to their homes.
More info in our podcast episode on the West Virginia mine wars: https://workingclasshistory.com/2018/06/09/wch-e7-the-west-virginia-mine-wars-1902-1922/
Pictured: one of the strikers https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1510678762450602/?type=3

Posted on September 10, 2019September 12, 2019 by Erik Chipchase

Armed Coal Miners.
The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest labor uprising in United States history and one of the largest organized armed uprisings since the American Civil War. The conflict occurred in Logan County, West Virginia, as part of the Coal Wars, a series of early-20th-century labor disputes in Appalachia. Up to 100 people were killed, and many more arrested.