In September 1921, as part of the largest armed labor uprising in American history, members of the Red Neck Army surrendered their arms to the U.S. Army. While the battle stayed alive in miners' families, the stories being 'passed down around kitchen tables and on front porches,' it has largely been forgotten in collective memory, writes Kenzie New Walker. Courtesy of the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum, collection of Kenneth King. For most people, the memory of the largest armed labor uprising in American history is unknown, buried beneath the dirt of West Virginia's Blair Mountain alongside bullet casings and relics of coal camp life.

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