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The Harlan County War, or Bloody Harlan, was a series of coal industry skirmishes, executions, bombings and strikes (both attempted and realized) that took place in Harlan County, Kentucky, during the 1930s.
The Battle of Evarts (May 5, 1931) occurred in Harlan, Kentucky during the Harlan County Wars. The coal miners desired improved working conditions, higher wages, and more housing options for their families. [1] These reasons, along with other factors, led the miners to go on strike.
The Harlan County Coal Miners, 1931–39 (University of Illinois Press, 2002) is also titled after the song. Get Up, Stand Up: The Story of Pop and Protest part 1, 2003 documentary. The song plays during the end credits of the 2016 drama In Dubious Battle. The song, Florence Reece, and the Harlan miner's strike feature in episode 2 of Damnation.
Harlan County War (2000) is a television film directed by Tony Bill and written by Peter Silverman. It aired on Showtime. Plot. A Kentucky woman whose mine-worker ...
On Oct. 11, 2000, a spill from a Martin County Coal Corp. waste containment pond polluted more than 100 miles of creeks, streams and rivers running through Kentucky and West Virginia.
Harlan County USA (variously written with and without a comma) is a 1976 American documentary film covering the "Brookside Strike", [1] a 1973 effort of 180 coal miners and their wives against the Duke Power Company-owned Eastover Coal Company's Brookside Mine and Prep Plant in Harlan County, southeast Kentucky.
In early 1920, UMW president John L. Lewis targeted Mingo County for organizing. ... Harlan County War (1931–1939) Colorado Labor Wars; Illinois coal wars (1898–1900)
In 1931, the miners and the mine owners in southeastern Kentucky were locked in a bitter and violent struggle called the Harlan County War. In an attempt to intimidate the family of union leader Sam Reece, Sheriff J. H. Blair and his men, hired by the mining company, illegally entered their home in search of Reece.