Episode 73: the battle of Blair Mountain
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Episode 73: the battle of Blair Mountain
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In 1921, the mountains of West Virginia became a battlefield.
Tens of thousands of coal miners took up arms against coal companies, private detectives, and state power in what became the largest labor uprising—and the largest armed conflict on U.S. soil since the Civil War.
This episode of Poisoned Appalachia explores the forces that led to the Battle of Blair Mountain: company towns, union busting, private armies, aerial bombs, and the silencing of working-class resistance. We follow the miners’ march, the violence on the mountain, and the aftermath that reshaped Appalachia—and American labor history.
This is not just a story about coal.
It’s a story about power, survival, and a mountain that still carries the echoes of war.
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