The Battle of Blair Mountain saw 10,000 West Virginia coal miners march in protest of perilous work conditions, squalid housing and low wages, among other grievances.

Long live the Battle of Blair Mountain. David Rovics is a frequently-touring singer/songwriter and political pundit based out of Portland, Oregon. His website is davidrovics.com.

Just months before the Battle of Blair Mountain, a white mob rampaged through an area of Tulsa, Oklahoma, called “Black Wall Street,” burning businesses and homes to the ground and murdering ...

It’s largely absent from history books, but for labor scholars the 1921 battle at Blair Mountain is legendary. Years of struggle between miners and coal-company bosses came to a head at this ...

Our failures stick with us, eat at us and keep us awake at night. I would know — I’ve had my fair share of failures, some of the most memorable being: barely passing macroeconomics, getting some ...

The Battle of Blair Mountain is historical narrative at its best, making past events become real for at least a few minutes of reading pleasure, while also providing a framework for understanding ...

A new battle at Blair Mountain, site of deadly uprising. Preservationists face off with industry over site of deadly 1921 labor uprising. By TOM BREEN, Associated Press July 8, 2007.

The Battle of Blair Mountain was part of a wave of working-class struggles in the US and internationally, which were inspired and profoundly influenced by the October 1917 Russian Revolution.

The Battle of Blair Mountain itself was the largest insurrection in U.S. history outside the Civil War. You had 15,000 men fighting on a mountain for four or five days with machine guns, ...

With Blair Mountain, the same forces — labor and coal operators — are fighting over the same territory as in 1921, though now with lawyers instead of guns. But it also spotlights the relative ...