UVA Wise Speaker Series Battle of Blair Mountain

UVA Wise Speaker Series

To educate and

commemorate

Battle of Blair Mountain

Effects of coal were felt

100 years later

• Wednesday, Sept. 29, 1 p.m., Cantrell Banquet Hall

C. Lloyd Tomlinson, Ph.D. Candidate in History, WVU

“Competing for control: The Stonega Coke & Coal Co. and the UMW in SWVA.”

• Wednesday, Oct. 13, 1 p.m., Cantrell Banquet Hall

Rebecca Bailey, Assoc. Prof. of History, NKU

“Silence was the price for peace: Can we afford to pay it now?”

• Wednesday, Nov. 17, 1 p.m., Cantrell Banquet Hall

T.R.C. Hutton, Assoc. Prof. of History, GSC

“The Baldwin-Felts Detectives & The New South in Appalachia.

Labor Disputes Escalate

to Gunfight in West Virginia

1921 * CENTENNIAL * 2021