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E57: West Virginia Mine Wars, part 1
Working Class History
The Rise and Fall of the Mine Workers
Between 1910 and 1920 alone, 4,260 miners in West Virginia were killed at work. Contrary to many mainstream portrayals, mine workers were much more ethnically diverse than is often assumed. Many black families had come to West Virginia to work on the railways, which were completed in 1870. Some of them were from sharecropping backgrounds and coming north to find better opportunity and less discrimination. There were also immigrants flooding in from overseas. The company has even owned the roads for goodness sake. So you can see how over time that would really wear a person down and make them willing to fight for those very elemental rights that we have in America.
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