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Battle of Blair Mountain
The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest organized armed uprising in American labor history and led almost directly to the labor laws currently in effect in the United States of America. For nearly a week in late August and early September 1921, in Logan County, West Virginia, between 10,000 to 15,000 coal miners confronted state and federal troops in an effort to unionize the south western West Virginia mine counties as had been done else where in the Railroad triggered demographic boom growth characterized by unprecedented immigrant hiring and exploitation in the region.
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