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Testifying before the La Follette Civil Rights Committee in April 1937, a coal miner representing the union displays the bloody, bullet-torn undershirt he was wearing when he was shot by Harlan County deputy sheriffs. On February 16, 1931, to maximize profits, the Harlan County Coal Operators' Association cut miners' wages by 10%.
In 2019, the county was the site of the 2019 Harlan County coal miners protest, one in a long history of coal mining. Coal miners demanded back payment from a coal company that fired them shortly after declaring bankruptcy. They occupied a railroad track and prevented a coal train from leaving the county for almost two months. [14]
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.
The collapse of a coal mining plant in Eastern Kentucky Tuesday has left one worker dead. ... 2006: Darby Mine disaster in Harlan County kills five miners. On May 20, 2006, ...
Starting in the 1960s coal seams in both Kentucky coal fields have been increasingly accessed via a method known as Mountaintop Removal Mining, which is a form of surface mining that involves the topographical alteration and/or removal of a summit, summit ridge, or significant portion of a mountain, hill, or ridge in order to obtain a desired ...
Clay County, Harlan County and Perry County: Preston Leslie, Governor of Kentucky (1871–1875) 12,401: 404 sq mi (1,046 km 2) Letcher County: 133: Whitesburg: 1842: Perry County and Harlan County: Robert P. Letcher, Governor of Kentucky (1840–1844) 25,277: 339 sq mi (878 km 2) Magoffin County: 153: Salyersville: 1860: Floyd County, Johnson ...
Eli Sanders, tipple worker, loads coal on car which has fallen off cars en route to tipple. Children walking their way through the town of Evarts. 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 ...
Closplint is an unincorporated community in Harlan County, Kentucky, United States.The settlement was named Cloversplint after the mining company (Clover Splint Coal Company, Inc. [2]) that built the mine to exploit the coal and the settlement as a coal town in 1926. [3]