Battle of Blair Mountain - Largest Armed Labor Uprising in US History
On August 25, 1921, nearly 13,000 armed coal miners began marching from Marmet, West Virginia, toward Logan County to challenge the oppressive company town system that had kept them in wage slavery for decades, triggering the largest armed uprising in the United States since the Civil War. The …
United Mine Workers of America
Sheriff Don Chafin
Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency
President Warren Harding
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