Mustering during 1921's Battle of Blair Mountain, 10,000 racially‑integrated, largely‑Socialist striking coal miners greeted each other, "I come creeping." The shibboleth distinguished and protected them from the private police, sheriffs, and strikebreakers of their robber baron bosses.
In the hypercapitalist present day, such histories of violent uprising offer fresh lessons—on the power of the people, and the means we have to liberate ourselves.
This website is a digital translation of a physical catalog that was displayed, in‑exhibit, on the bookstand component of March of Progress. The catalog was designed and printed by A. Jinha Song, and written collaboratively by A. Jinha Song and Ian Byers‑Gamber.
