MATEWAN, W. Va. – The Mingo County fight nobody talks about started when coal miners finally said “enough.”Back in the early part of the 20th century, the coal companies controlled these mountains and most of the people in them. They brought in workers – immigrants from Europe, African-Americans from the Deep South – and put them in company housing along the railroad line.
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