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In the coal mines and coal towns of West Virginia, African Americans worked and lived alongside European immigrants and native Appalachians.
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West Virginia coal operators built small, company-owned towns for their miners to live in.
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In the early 1900s, a struggle over working conditions of coal miners led to the largest armed insurrection since the Civil War and turned parts of West Virginia into a war zone.
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Watch the opening scene of The Mine Wars .
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Edison |
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Thomas Edison achieved glory as the genius behind such revolutionary inventions as sound recording, motion pictures, and electric light.
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In the fall of 1922, a film crew came to West Orange, New Jersey to document Thomas Edison going about his day.
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Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated his new invention, the telephone, at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park.
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On New Year's Eve, 1879, Thomas Edison unveiled his newest invention: the electric light.
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In 1894, Thomas Edison filmed sharpshooter Annie Oakley in his Black Maria studio.
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On December 7, 1877, Edison demonstrated his phonograph at the New York City offices of the nation's leading technical weekly publication, Scientific American .
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In February 1881, Thomas Edison established the headquarters of the Edison Electric Light Company in New York City.
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In the 1890s, Thomas Edison worked with his assistant and part-time photographer, William Dickson to create a motion picture camera.
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