173. The Road to Blair Mountain - Saving a Mine Wars Battlefield from King Coal

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Dr. Charles Keeney is the author of The Road to Blair Mountain Saving a Mine Wars Battlefield from King Coal, which was published in January 2021 of West Virginia University Press and he is founding member of the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum.

We center the conversation around Dr. Keeney’s book and the Battle of Blair Mountain Centennial Commemoration over Labor Day Weekend 2021.

In this conversation, we discuss:

Dr. Keeney’s family history steeped in labor struggles going back to his great grandfather Frank Keeney;
What was the Battle of Blair Mountain and why it is relevant;
His book The Road to Blair Mountain Saving a Mine Wars Battlefield from King Coal;
The West Virginia Mine Wars Museum;
Politics in West Virginia; and
The role of teaching labor history as central to human progress.

Follow the relevant links to Dr. Keeney’s work and labor struggles in West Virginia:

Keeney’s book - The Road to Blair Mountain Saving a Mine Wars Battlefield from King Coal
West Virginia Mine Wars Museum - https://wvminewars.org/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/cbelmontkeeney
Frank Keeney - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Keeney
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Follow the events around the Battle of Blair Mountain Centennial Commemoration over Labor Day Weekend 2021 https://www.blair100.com/. Empathy Media Lab will be in Charleston, West Virginia over the weekend filming and interviewing labor activists. If you have content ideas or want to meet up, please reach out!

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