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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...22 KB (2,736 words) - 14:00, 19 February 2024
Documentary History of the West Virginia Mine Wars. Oakland: PM Press.[ISBN missing] Corbin, David, ed. (1998). The West Virginia Mine Wars: An Anthology. Martinsburg...9 KB (956 words) - 09:37, 21 July 2024
Battle of Blair Mountain (redirect from Red Neck War)uprising 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...37 KB (4,057 words) - 10:29, 31 July 2024
museum. The West Virginia Mine Wars Museum, housed in a building owned by the United Mine Workers of America, provides history for the mine wars. Matthew...13 KB (1,215 words) - 15:49, 6 May 2024
or the Paint Creek Mine War, was a confrontation between striking coal miners and coal operators in Kanawha County, West Virginia, centered on the area...15 KB (1,757 words) - 16:46, 11 February 2024
insider humor. An alternative origin story is that during the West Virginia Mine Wars of the early 1920s, workers organizing for labor rights donned...19 KB (2,102 words) - 11:58, 8 August 2024
Sid Hatfield (category People from Matewan, West Virginia)1921), was a West Virginia law enforcement officer noted for his involvement in bitter labor disputes, on the side of labor, during the Coal Wars of the early...11 KB (1,379 words) - 08:53, 25 November 2023
History East Fork VFD at Dingess, WV West Virginia Mine Wars Museum independent history museum covering the Mine Wars Era in Matewan, WV. 37°44′N 82°08′W...23 KB (2,155 words) - 02:31, 7 May 2024
February 2, 2022. Park Service, National. "Introduction to the West Virginia Mine Wars". National Park Service. National Park Service. Retrieved February...9 KB (714 words) - 17:07, 9 April 2024- Baldwin–Felts Detective Agency (category Coal Wars)collectively known as the Coal Wars, occurred in various locations. The Pocahontas Coalfield region of West Virginia witnessed some of these events....17 KB (2,408 words) - 09:16, 21 July 2024
review. According to historian David Alan Corbin's 1990 book The West Virginia Mine Wars, the Congressional Record of this hearing "breaks off suddenly...7 KB (708 words) - 04:59, 20 March 2024
General of West Virginia from 1925 to 1933. His efforts to eliminate government corruption during that time helped to end the West Virginia Mine Wars. Jessica...17 KB (1,450 words) - 21:35, 26 April 2024- Battle of Matewan (category Labor disputes in West Virginia)Charleston: West Virginia Division of Culture and History. West Virginia Mine Wars Museum independent history museum covering the Mine Wars Era in Matewan...15 KB (1,738 words) - 09:35, 21 July 2024
The Army of the Potomac went into winter quarters at Brandy Station, Virginia. Mine Run had been Meade's final opportunity to plan a strategic offensive...13 KB (1,505 words) - 00:54, 12 March 2024
The history of West Virginia stems from the 1861 Wheeling Convention, which was an assembly of northwestern Virginian Southern Unionists, who aimed to...80 KB (10,797 words) - 22:55, 26 April 2024
Southern West Virginia Miners, 1880–1922 Chicago, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. Corbin, David Alan, editor (1990) The West Virginia Mine Wars: An...31 KB (4,126 words) - 22:35, 23 September 2023- Matewan (category Films set in West Virginia)Kenehan is an ex-Wobbly organizer for the United Mine Workers. He arrives in Matewan, West Virginia in 1920 to organize miners against the Stone Mountain...17 KB (1,914 words) - 00:37, 10 June 2024
the United States; for example, in southern West Virginia, during the build up to the West Virginia Mine Wars, "the Improved Order of Red Men [was] . ....19 KB (2,258 words) - 20:51, 21 July 2024
tragedy and the mine widows.[citation needed] Fairmont Coal Company, of Fairmont, West Virginia, bought 36 mines in June 1901, including six mines of the Monongah...18 KB (1,878 words) - 10:21, 23 July 2024
West Virginia is a landlocked state in the Southern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. It is bordered by Pennsylvania to the north and east...184 KB (18,124 words) - 20:33, 4 August 2024
- Charleston (West Virginia) 14008231911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 5 — Charleston (West Virginia) CHARLESTON, the capital of West Virginia, U.S.A.,
- West Virginia, officially the State of West Virginia, is a U.S. state located in the Appalachian region in the Southern United States and is also considered
- him and the Federal army, Lee advanced up the Shenandoah Valley into West Virginia and Maryland before finally marching into South-Central Pennsylvania