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Testimony about a mining disaster. 

A woman talking about the physical demands of coal mining, the typical miner, a rock fall, stereo...

A woman talking about workers rights, womens rights, mine safety, sexism/racism in the mines, bei...

A woman talking about being a miner, legal suit against company after accident, "double standard,...

Women discussing working in the mines, family discouragement, mine strikes, lay offs, and accidents.

A woman discussing the death of two women miners, women in the mines, child care for miners.

A man talking about an explosion or mine accident and how workers are fixing the problem, rescue ...

Farmer Asher talking about coal mining, changes in the industry, miners' responsibility for accid...

Frank Cloud talking about conditions in the mines for men and animals, other mining issues.

Hazel Dickens discusses her songs and how they fit in to the tradition, how she uses her songs to...

Jim Stanley of Derby, Va. discusses his family's experience being exploited by the coal company, ...

Coal miner John Hinson (Brookside, KY) discussing fighting, corruption, labor union safety commit...

Coal miner John Hinson discussing working in the mines, various instances of the danger of mine w...

A man discussing the struggles of coal miners, death of coal miners, miners' culture, John L. Lew...

John Tiller discussing working in coal mines. A group of men discuss dangers of coal mining and h...

Lois Scott discussing the mine wars and resistance to labor unions in Harlan County, trains clack...

Mrs. Blakley discusses about how word of a mine accident spread in the coal camp, a mine fire tha...

A woman and her boy talking about trading, being raised in Evarts, life in the camps. A woman dis...

A group of people discussing an explosion in Scotia Mine in the Ovenfork Community of Letcher Cou...

March 1976 - Press conference in the aftermath of the first of two methane explosions in the Scot...

On Nov. 7, 1980, five coal miners were killed in a methane gas explosion at Westmoreland Coal Com...

Nov 7, tape 2 covering mine disaster in Madison, WV. Representatives discuss disaster and those k...

A man speaking at a press conference about a mine accident, Westmoreland Coal Company Ferrell No....

Coverage about mine disaster. Tape 5, Nov 8, 1980 Westmoreland Mine Disaster at Farrow Mine and R...

A man talking to press about a mining accident, removing bratice cloth.

A group of people discussing a mining disaster.

A group of people [Mimi Pickering] discussing mine rescue teams and investigators. CB radios hear...

A man discussing safety conditions prior to a mine accident [at Scotia?], mine inspectors, safety...

A man answering questions about a possible mine explosion. 

A group of men discussing a mine accident including a methane explosion with fifteen victims.

Press conference with various federal and state mining officials, regarding the Scotia mining dis...

A man talking about a mine explosion, speaking with a man from Benham [IH Mine Rescue Team ?], on...