27 objects

A man reading a statement from coal miners  in Kentucky pertaining to regulatory powers returning...

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

A man discussing his career as coal miner, harassment and safety in mines, his observations the d...

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

Coal miner John Hinson of Brookside, KY discussing the inadequate medical care provided by compan...

W.P. Tams Jr. (former coal operator) discussing his career as the owner of a mine, the cultural m...

Portrait of a coal miner which includes footage in and around Laurel Branch Mine in Virginia.  Fr...

A group of women talking about working in the mines, sex discrimination in the mines, hiring prac...

Barbara Angles of Westernport, Maryland, interviewed on March 5, 1981. Angles discusses community...

A woman talking about women coal miners, disadvantages for black miners and women miners.

An interview with a woman talking about coal mining, the advantages/disadvantages of mining, why ...

Raw footage from the filming of Mine War on Blackberry Creek (1986). Anne Lewis interviews Nomond...

Nimrod Workman, a woman, and an interviewer discuss loading coal, Nimrod's decision to work in th...

January 15, 1987 - Miners entering and working in an underground mine, filmed by Anne Lewis and A...

Group of miners working in an underground mine, discussing what it's like to work in the mine

Coal miners working underground, discuss jokes, working underground, animals in mines, dangers of...

Miners discussing coal mining culture, life as a coal miner, hazards of working underground, the ...

Miners working in a underground mine, men discuss working in the mines.

Miners working in an underground mine. 

Miners working in a underground mine, men discuss why they decided to be miners, working in the m...

Miners working underground, machines whirring in background, continuous miner. Man talks to produ...

Miners working inside a mine, production staff asks questions about roof bolts, mine safety, city...

Miners working in an underground mine. A miner discusses fossils as an indication of "bad top."

Union miner Kermit Phillips discusses how he started working in the mines, how he became a union ...

A man discussing children these days, mining, Brookside, advantages of physical work. 

A compilation of WMMT radio reports

black lung benefits law/Buck - 4/10/91
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This video from 1993 features testimony and footage from union coal miners on strike at the Beth-...