The Coal Creek War - a podcast by Steve Gilly, Rod Mullins

from 2016-12-31T12:00:48

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In the early 1890’s, miners working in the coal mines at Coal Creek in Anderson County, Tennessee, rose up against the mine operators over their jobs being taken by free convict labor. Things eventually became violent, with armed miners squaring off against the Tennessee guard in what can only be described as an armed uprising. […]