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The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom

The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom

Green, James

Paperback

20th Century United States HistoryRegional: SouthSocial Movements

Publisher Price: $22.00

ISBN10: 0802124658
ISBN13: 9780802124654
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: Jan 5 2016
Pages: 448
Weight: 0.80
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

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.

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