Matewan, W.Va. (WVDN) — The West Virginia Mine Wars Museum is proud to announce the launch of Phase 2 of Courage in the Hollers: Mapping the Miners’ Struggle to Form a Union , a groundbreaking public history project that commemorates one of the most significant, yet often overlooked, chapters in American labor history.

With generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities —and with strong local enthusiasm and ongoing partnerships in each community—the Museum will expand the project to six new sites across four southern West Virginia counties, bringing history back to the places where it was made.

Over the next three years, the Museum will create permanent monuments and historic markers along the 50-mile route of the 1921 Mine

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