Stories, quotes and anecdotes from Appalachia. 1880s-1950s era.

Category: Unions

Quakers and Bloody Harlan

The Quakers of the American Friends Service Committee fed Harlan County’s most desperately hungry children between fall 1931 and spring 1934.

Controversy over mining, strife between miners/their employers is not a new phenomena, as historian James Green points out in his new book.

Activist Wilma Lee Steele surveys the bloody history of WV’s Blair Mountain and the struggle it represents right up to the present day.

At the Depression’s height, 4,000+ textile mill workers in Huntsville walked off the job, beginning a strike that eventually spread to Maine.

This historical novel is set Depression-era Harlan, KY, where lethal labor strife leads to the county’s desperate coal mine wars.

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