In the first decades of the 20th century, desegregation seemed like a
distant dream. Bombings, lynchings, and otheracts of brutal racist
violence
<https://www.teenvogue.com/story/the-red-summer-of-1919-explained>were
all too common, and schools and other public spaces were largely
segregated by race. Yet deep in the coal mines of West Virginia, an
integrated militia of coal miners was forming, and they had little in
common except for their enemy: oppressive coal barons. White hill folk,
European immigrants, and African Americans were fed up with
life-threatening working conditions, terrible wages, crushing debt, and
corrupt mine operators. They were the original rednecks, and their
interracial coalition was ahead of its time.
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-was-the-battle-of-blair-mountain?fbclid=IwAR3cDSk9PKd1aCP9fyYvdZJV--IWybrOpDYrmxHAXebvuTUcLDC7Fpj41aw
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