March on Blair Mountain.

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More than 1,000 people marched against mountaintop removal in southern West Virginia, June 4-11. The five-day, fifty-mile march commemorated the ninetieth anniversary of the Battle of Blair Mountain, where 10,000 coal miners rose against the rule of the coal operators and fought for decent working conditions. Protesters...

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