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64) The mine wars
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
At the beginning of the 20th century, coal was the engine of American industrial progress. Nearly three quarters of a million men across the country spent ten or twelve hours a day underground in coal mines. The Mine Wars brings to life the struggle that turned the coalfields of southern West Virginia into a blood-soaked war zone where basic constitutional rights and freedoms were violently contested.
65) Matewan
Series
The Criterion collection volume 999
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Written and directed by John Sayles, this wrenching historical drama recounts the true story of a West Virginia coal town where the local miners' struggle to form a union rose to the pitch of all-out war in 1920. When Matewan's miners go on strike, organizer Joe Kenehan (Chris Cooper, in his film debut), arrives to help them, uniting workers white and black, Appalachia-born and immigrant, while urging patience in the face of the coal company's violent...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
From before the dawn of the 20th century until the arrival of the New Deal, one of the most protracted and deadly labor struggles 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 50,000 mine workers, the nation's largest labor union, and the legendary "miners' angel," Mother Jones. The fight for unionization and civil rights sparked...
67) The nine lives of Charles E. Lively: the deadliest man in the west Virginia-Colorado coal mine wars
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Description
"The West Virginia and Colorado Coal Mine Wars of the early twentieth century was a tumultuous and violent time in our nation's history. At the center of this saga is Charles Everett Lively, perhaps one of the deadliest of the undercover agents of the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency. This book shines a light for the first time into the intrigue surrounding this controversial figure"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Detective Chief Inspector Monika Paniatowski is called to investigate the murder of a retired miner in the village of Bellingsworth, which is already dealing with an impending miners strike and as Monika tracks the killer, her partner and closest friend Detective Inspector Colin Beresford, is behaving in a way that threatens to tear the team apart.
70) Ludlow Massacre
Series
Colorado experience volume 107
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
"One of the most significant events in the struggle for labor laws in America played out in Las Animas County in the spring of 1914. With the control of much of Colorado's coal mines in the hands of just a few companies, miners grew increasingly intolerant of low wages and dangerous working conditions. Despite efforts to suppress union activity, the United Mine Workers of America called a strike in September of 1913. Over the next few months, tensions...
71) Mother Jones
Author
Pub. Date
1996.
Description
A biography of the determined labor organizer of the early twentieth century who became known as Mother Jones.
77) Still life
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
After a town is completely destroyed by a flood, the residents must try to rebuild their homes, the town, and their lives.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
In the poverty of the Appalachian coal country in 1908, eight-year-old Minna's life gets even more difficult after her father dies of black lung, and that winter she cannot go to school because she does not have a coat--until the quilting mothers make her a coat using pieces of cloth from their own lives, each with a special story behind it.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
The two defining moments of Western coalfield labor relations have been massacres: Wyoming's Rock Springs Massacre of 1885 and Colorado's Ludlow Massacre of 1914. But it wasn't just the company guns that were responsible for the deaths of 28 Chinese coal miners and 13 women and children. It was the result of racial tensions and the economics of the coal industry itself. In Industrializing the Rockies, David A. Wolff places these deadly conflicts...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Elsie Lavender and Homer Hickam (the father of the author) were high school classmates in the West Virginia coalfields, graduating just as the Great Depression began. When Homer asked for her hand, Elsie instead headed to Orlando where she sparked with a dancing actor named Buddy Ebsen (yes, that Buddy Ebsen). But when Buddy headed for New York, Elsie's dreams of a life with him were crushed and eventually she found herself back in the coalfields,...
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