Before Black Lung, The Hawks Nest Tunnel Disaster Killed Hundreds

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In the 1930s, thousands of black men fleeing the south found work on a tunnel project in West Virginia. Many would die there in one of the worst industrial disasters in American history.

 

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PatrickDennisD1 This is what Trump told them they wanted.

. What happened to all that 'beautiful clean coal' ? .

pgmckim Retraining coal miners for green energy jobs would be a good investment in people for both longevity and environment!

I'm leaving this for you here, ...

Fake news. MAGA

FAKE NEWS!! Trump says coal is clean and beautiful

Womp womp

Somebody's gotta mine the coal to run the power plants so there will be electricity to charge the electric cars. 🙂

Coal miners are applauding deregulation and fighting to keep a job that killed or disabled generations of their family,and is doing the same to them. All because they're not willing to learn anything else and believe anything conservative authority figures tell them.

It is tragic when people feel this is their only hope of earning a living. Then get lung cancer 🙄

This is century old news!!!

Thank goodness for those evil regulations going away. Can't wait for the money to trickle down to black lung sufferers (hint: it won't)

Didn't anybody WATCH Justified?

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