Efforts of the United Mine Workers, led by Mother Jones, to organize coal miners in southern West Virginia at the beginning of the 20th century leads to violence and insurrection.
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- Self - Narrator
- Self - Professor of History
- Self - Local Historian, West Virginia
- Self - Associate Professor and Lead Historian for the Mother Jones Museum
- Self - Professor of History and Author of 'Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War'
- Self - Novelist
- Self - Professor of 20th-Century American History
- Self - Professor of History, Carnegie Mellon University
- Self - Historian, Northern Kentucky University
- Self - Historian
- Self - Former Coal Miner
- Self - Local Historian, West Virginia
- Self - Former Coal Miner
- Self - Historian, Department of History, West Virginia University
- Self - Professor of History, Appalachian State University
- Self - Author of 'Gun Thugs, Rednecks, and Radicals: A Documentary History of the West Virginia Mine
- Self - Professor, Morehead State University
- Self - Professor, West Virginia University
- Self - Police Chief of Matewan, West Virginia
- Self - Deputy Director of the US Air Service
- Self - US Army General