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Road to Blair Mountain

Charles B Keeney (Autor)

West Virginia University Press (Editora)

R$ 157,79
SKU: 9781949199857
"Keeney delivers a riveting and propulsive story about a nine-year battle to save sacred ground that was the site of the largest labor uprising in American history. . . . He unveils a powerful playbook on successful activism that will inspire countless others for generations to come." --Eric Eyre, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic

In 1921 Blair Mountain in southern West Virginia was the site of the country's bloodiest armed insurrection since the Civil War, a battle pitting miners led by Frank Keeney against agents of the coal barons intent on quashing organized labor. It was the largest labor uprising in US history. Ninety years later, the site became embroiled in a second struggle, as activists came together to fight the coal industry, state government, and the military- industrial complex in a successful effort to save the battlefield--sometimes dubbed "labor's Gettysburg"--from destruction by mountaintop removal mining.

The Road to Blair Mountain is the moving and sometimes harrowing story of Charles Keeney's fight to save this irreplaceable landscape. Beginning in 2011, Keeney--a historian and great-grandson of Frank Keeney--led a nine-year legal battle to secure the site's placement on the National Register of Historic Places. His book tells a David-and-Goliath tale worthy of its own place in West Virginia history. A success story for historic preservation and environmentalism, it serves as an example of how rural, grassroots organizations can defeat the fossil fuel industry.

Sobre o Livro

Em 1921 Blair Mountain, no sul da Virgínia Ocidental, foi palco do mais violento levante armado de trabalhadores nos Estados Unidos, com mineiros liderados por Frank Keeney enfrentando agentes das companhias mineradoras.

A partir de 2011 começou uma nova disputa sobre o mesmo território, marcada por uma batalha jurídica de nove anos para proteger a paisagem histórica contra a mineração por remoção de cume; a ação visou incluir o local no National Register of Historic Places.

Charles B. Keeney, historiador e bisneto de Frank Keeney, relata o processo de preservação do campo de batalha e descreve como organizações locais e ativistas urbanos e rurais confrontaram interesses do setor energético e do governo.

Características

Categoria História
Subcategoria História dos Estados Unidos
Autores Charles B Keeney
Sobre o Autor Charles B. Keeney é historiador e liderou o esforço de preservação do sítio de Blair Mountain.
Idioma Inglês
Quantidade de Páginas 328
Acabamento Brochura
Editora West Virginia University Press
ISBN 9781949199857
Tamanho 12.7x20.3
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