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Brookside Women
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Interview with Betty Eldridge, Minnie Lunsford, and Gussie Mills, who were members of the "Brooks...

Mountain Community Television Collection, 1972-1978
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Jim Stanley discusses the struggle to unionize the coal mines, gun thugs, safety conditions in mi...

Coal Camp materials
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John Hinson [Henson?] discusses working, living in a coal camp, law enforcement, George Titler, p...

Coal Camp materials
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Bessie Cornet describing the conditions at Brookside in the beginnings of the strike, discusses t...

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

Coal Camp materials
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Lois Scott talking about family politics, wages, coalmining, UMWA strikes, state police

Coal Camp materials
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Lois Scott talking about a strike in Benham, Kentucky. She discusses showing up alongside other w...

Coal Camp materials
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Field audio tape of Hobart Grills and John Tiller discussing the different clashes between union ...

Coal Camp materials
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Former coal miners Hobart Grills and John Tiller discuss economics, infrastructure, scab labor, a...

Coal Camp materials
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John Tiller, Hobart Grills and an interviewer discuss the Brookside strike and legal action, scab...

Coal Camp materials
Interview with Hazel Dickens about black lung, her own songs

Mimi Pickering interviews Hazel Dickens, who discusses the first time she sang Black Lung live at...

Hazel Dickens: It's Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song materials, c.2001
Original songs about Massey Energy, other political music at Highlander Research Center

A man singing original songs about Massey Energy, strikes. Woman sings I've Got to Keep Going, Je...

Mine War on Blackberry Creek materials, c.1986
Interview with striking coal workers about scab labor

Man discusses why they can't stop the scabs, new regulations on strikers, Massey Energy and Don B...

Mine War on Blackberry Creek materials, c.1986
Interview with Don Blankenship about "union terrorism"

Don Blankenship discusses letter employees received about inability to reach agreement with union...

Mine War on Blackberry Creek materials, c.1986
Interview with Don Blankenship about right to work, Hayes West incident

Don Blankenship discussing union struggles and right to work, defines terrorism.

Mine War on Blackberry Creek materials, c.1986
Interview with Don Blankenship about unions, Richard Trumka

Anne Lewis and a male filmmaker interview Don Blankenship at Massey Energy discusses productivity...

Mine War on Blackberry Creek materials, c.1986
Interview with truck drivers' boss at Sprouse Creek Processing Plant

Drivers' boss discusses unions, pensions, equates strikers to terrorists. Truck driver discusses ...

Mine War on Blackberry Creek materials, c.1986
Interviews with strikebreakers working with A.T. Massey Coal Company

Raw footage from the filming of Mine War on Blackberry Creek (1986). Anne Lewis and Andy Garrison...

Mine War on Blackberry Creek materials, c.1986
Interview with strikebreakers at Massey worksite

Interviews with strikebreakers at A.T. Massey worksite. They discuss crossing picket lines, attac...

Mine War on Blackberry Creek materials, c.1986
Interview with striking coal miners about violence, Hayes West incident

Footage from the filming of Mine War on Blackberry Creek (1986). Anne Lewis interviews coal miner...

Mine War on Blackberry Creek materials, c.1986
Interview with coal workers on strike against A.T. Massey company about picket line violence

Group of men and women discuss violence against strikers, woman who was shot, their right to bear...

Mine War on Blackberry Creek materials, c.1986
Interview with Richard Trumka about Massey Energy, UMWA

Richard Trumka (UMWA president at the time) discussing Massey and UMWA agreement 1985, current st...

Mine War on Blackberry Creek materials, c.1986

A man discussing regulations and compensation for coal miners, contracts and strikes, [Sam] Churc...

United Mine Workers of America 1970: A House Divided materials, c.1971
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