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Author | : James Green |
Publisher | : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2015-02-03 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0802192092 |
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“The most comprehensive and comprehendible history of the West Virginia Coal War I’ve ever read.” —John Sayles, writer and director of Matewan On September 1, 1912, the largest, most protracted, and deadliest working-class uprising in American history was waged in West Virginia. On one side were powerful corporations whose millions bought armed guards and political influence. On the other side were fifty thousand mine workers, the nation’s largest labor union, and the legendary “miners’ angel,” Mother Jones. The fight for unionization and civil rights sparked a political crisis that verged on civil war, stretching from the creeks and hollows of the Appalachians to the US Senate. Attempts to unionize were met with stiff resistance. Fundamental rights were bent—then broken. The violence evolved from bloody skirmishes to open armed conflict, as an army of more than fifty thousand miners finally marched to an explosive showdown. Extensively researched and vividly told, this definitive book about an often-overlooked chapter of American history, “gives this backwoods struggle between capital and labor the due it deserves. [Green] tells a dark, often despairing story from a century ago that rings true today” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette).
Author | : Susan Campbell Bartoletti |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780395979143 |
Download Growing Up in Coal Country Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Describes what life was like, especially for children, in coal mines and mining towns in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Author | : Ken Sullivan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download The Goldenseal Book of the West Virginia Mine Wars Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Howard Burton Lee |
Publisher | : West Virginia University Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Download Bloodletting in Appalachia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Ronald D. Eller |
Publisher | : Univ. of Tennessee Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780870493416 |
Download Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"As a benchmark book should, this one will stimulate the imagination and industry of future researchers as well as wrapping up the results of the last two decades of research... Eller's greatest achievement results from his successful fusion of scholarly virtues with literary ones. The book is comprehensive, but not overlong. It is readable but not superficial. The reader who reads only one book in a lifetime on Appalachia cannot do better than to choose this one... No one will be able to ignore it except those who refuse to confront the uncomfortable truths about American society and culture that Appalachia's history conveys." -- John A. Williams, Appalachian Journal.
Author | : Jacqueline Jones |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2013-12-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0465069800 |
Download A Dreadful Deceit Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In 1656, a planter in colonial Maryland tortured and killed one of his slaves, an Angolan man named Antonio who refused to work the fields. Over three centuries later, a Detroit labor organizer named Simon Owens watched as strikebreakers wielding bats and lead pipes beat his fellow autoworkers for protesting their inhumane working conditions. Antonio and Owens had nothing in common but the color of their skin and the economic injustices they battled—yet the former is what defines them in America’s consciousness. In A Dreadful Deceit, award-winning historian Jacqueline Jones traces the lives of these two men and four other African Americans to reveal how the concept of race has obscured the factors that truly divide and unite us. Expansive, visionary, and provocative, A Dreadful Deceit explodes the pernicious fiction that has shaped American history.
Author | : Napoleon Hill |
Publisher | : Sharon Lechter |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : |
Download Outwitting the Devil Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Originally written in 1938 but never published due to its controversial nature, an insightful guide reveals the seven principles of good that will allow anyone to triumph over the obstacles that must be faced in reaching personal goals.
Author | : Rebecca J. Bailey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download Matewan Before the Massacre Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
On May 19, 1920, gunshots rang through the streets of Matewan, West Virginia, in an event soon known as the "Matewan Massacre." Most historians of West Virginia and Appalachia see this event as the beginning of a long series of tribulations known as the second Mine Wars. But was it instead the culmination of an even longer series of proceedings that unfolded in Mingo County, dating back at least to the Civil War? Matewan Before the Massacre provides the first comprehensive history of the area, beginning in the late eighteenth century continuing up to the Massacre. It covers the relevant economic history, including the development of the coal mine industry and the struggles over land ownership; labor history, including early efforts of unionization; transportation history, including the role of the N&W Railroad; political history, including the role of political factions in the county's two major communities--Matewan and Williamson; and the impact of the state's governors and legislatures on Mingo County.
Author | : Peter A. Galuszka |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2012-09-18 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1250000211 |
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The searing true story of the rise, fall, and resurrection of Massey Energy, and the negligence that led to the death of 29 miners, exposing the coal-black motivations that fuel the ongoing war for the world's energy future.
Author | : Lon Savage |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Pre |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 1985-06-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0822971429 |
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The West Virginia mine war of 1920-21, a major civil insurrection of unusual brutality on both sides, even by the standards of the coal fields, involved thousands of union and nonunion miners, state and private police, militia, and federal troops. Before it was over, three West Virginia counties were in open rebellion, much of the state was under military rule, and bombers of the U.S. Army Air Corps had been dispatched against striking miners.The origins of this civil war were in the Draconian rule of the coal companies over the fiercely proud miners of Appalachia. It began in the small railroad town of Matewan when Mayor C. C. Testerman and Police Chief Sid Hatfield sided with striking miners against agents of the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency, who attempted to evict the miners from company-owned housing. During a street battle, Mayor Testerman, seven Baldwin-Felts agents, and two miners were shot to death.Hatfield became a folk hero to Appalachia. But he, like Testerman, was to be a martyr. The next summer, Baldwin-Felts agents assassinated him and his best friend, Ed Chambers, as their wives watched, on the steps of the courthouse in Welch, accelerating the miners' rebellion into open warfare.Much neglected in historical accounts, Thunder in the Mountains is the only available book-length account of the crisis in American industrial relations and governance that occured during the West Virginia mine war of 1920-21.