Charles B. Keeney is an assistant professor of history at Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College. The author of two books, he served as president of Friends of Blair Mountain and was a founding member of the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum.
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Preface 1. Fighting for a Battlefield 2. Marching into Blair 3. Camp Branch 4. The Northwest Flank 5. Identity Reclamation 6. The Long Road Epilogue: Appalachian Anthropocene Acknowledgments Glossary Notes Index
This book connects to work on twentieth-century labour history, but it is more than that. It is an insider's thoughts on regional identity and activism as well as a reassessment of how people see Appalachia in the popular mind. When Charles Keeney speaks directly to the reader and offers advice, it resonates in a powerful and present way."-Steven E. Nash, East Tennessee State University "Keeney brings a lifetime of scholarship, family relations, and activism to this twenty-first-century chapter of the epic and ongoing saga of Blair Mountain."-Catherine Venable Moore, president, West Virginia Mine Wars Museum "Chuck Keeney takes over where his great-grandfather left off a century ago-in a no-holds-barred fight against King Coal and its pursuit of profits over people. 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. You'll find yourself rooting for Keeney from beginning to end. 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 "Fascinating. . . . Suspenseful to the very end."-Daily Yonder