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#22 Whose America?, ep. 1: Rough Extraction

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Coal Mining in West Virginia

Coal miners from around south and central west virginia began to assemble at lens creek, up by paint and cabin creeks. If the governor was going to empower a middle class militia and hired mercenaries to murder miners under cover of martial law, then the miners had no choice but to put an end to it themselves. War veterans from the first world war were identified and put in positions of leadership. Wives of union miners who were trained as nurses accompanied their men,. wearing nurses white uniforms and caps, instead of the usual red cross.

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