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“They’re going to bomb us!” (Mine Wars, Part 3)
The West Virginia Mine Wars were a series of armed conflicts between coal mine operators and employees in the Mountain State. The first episode was...
“They hit me and threw me down.” (Mine Wars, Part 2)
This second episode in a three-part series focuses on the Paint Creek and Cabin Creek Strikes, during which martial law was declared three separate...
“The worst of the explosion occurred in the No. 8 mine.” (Mine Wars, Part 1)
The West Virginia Mine Wars were violent conflicts between mine workers and mine owners, that took place between 1912 and 1922. In all there were five...
“We lived with constant fear.” (Encore: Freedom Summer, Part 2)
John Robert Lewis was born on February 21, 1940, in Pike County, Alabama. As he learned during a filming of Finding Your Roots, his great-great-grandfather...
“We have to be shot down here like rabbits.” (Encore: The Great Migration, Part 1)
The Civil War was supposed to mean the end of slavery and the beginning of freedom, franchise, and full citizenship for African Americans. And in the...
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