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Solidarity Song is a history of the West Virginia Mine Wars, one of the most dramatic struggles for civil rights that this country has known, but also one of the nation’s most obscure. PREORDER
A writer, editor, and public historian exploring the hidden histories of the U.S. and Appalachia
Winner of the National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Award and a Whiting Nonfiction Grant
“A gorgeously written, meticulously researched account of a critical episode of U.S. labor history, Solidarity Song tells a century-old story of solidarity and the struggle that united Black, white, and immigrant miners against wealthy industrialists...Moore’s characters could have stepped out of a Sherwood Anderson story. Her passion for this moment in history – widely considered the largest armed insurrection since the Civil War – opens up a discussion vital to contemporary American life. ”