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Fighting for a Breath
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Appalshop documentary on Pneumoconiosis, commonly know as black lung.

Fighting for a Breath materials, c.1995
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
Interview with Hazel Dickens about her own songs

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

Hazel Dickens: It's Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song materials, c.2001
Interview with Jerry Johnson about electricity, Happy Pappies

Coal miner Jerry Johnson discusses electricity, carrying water from the spring/creek, washing mac...

Underground Miner materials
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Jim Summerville discusses the Citizen's Commission to Investigate the Buffalo Creek Disaster.

The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man materials, c.1975
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John Tiller, Hobart Grills and an interviewer discuss the Brookside strike and legal action, scab...

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
Interview with Morgan Sexton about mining and music

Morgan Sexton discussing the importance of Old Time music, his hand injury, playing the banjo, ev...

Morgan Sexton: Banjo Player from Bull Creek materials, c.1991
Music and interview with Morgan Sexton

Morgan Sexton discusses/plays Little Gypsy Girl, Cumberland Gap, unknown song, Wagoner's Lad. Cam...

Morgan Sexton: Banjo Player from Bull Creek materials, c.1991
Music and interview with Morgan Sexton about Dock Boggs, running liquor

Morgan Sexton playing banjo and singing. Sexton tells about meeting Dock Boggs. Sexton discusses ...

Morgan Sexton: Banjo Player from Bull Creek materials, c.1991
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