Tag: Battle of Blair Mountain

The Red Neck Army marches to Blair Mountain

The miners of “The Red neck Army” picked up their Winchesters and gathered at Marmet (near Charleston) that summer morning in 1921.

Activist Wilma Lee Steele surveys the bloody history of WV’s Blair Mountain and the struggle it represents right up to the present day.

The Battle of Blair Mountain. Over 500 “rednecks” were charged with treason, murder, & conspiracy to commit murder.

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