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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 scene I love the best of me being in Harlan County was when [mine foreman] Basil Collins stopped his truck and said, "Come over here, honey." After I did, he said, "Who do you work for?" And I said, "United Press." He said, "Let me see your press card." And I yelled for Anne Lewis [19] to go in my purse and get my press card. I actually ...
The Harlan County War, or Bloody Harlan, was a series of coal industry skirmishes, executions, bombings and strikes (both attempted and realized) ...
Basil Noel Marcus Collins (11 June 1891 – 3 February 1946) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club in the Victorian Football ...
On Thursday, Harlan County, Evangel Christian, Louisville Trinity and Campbell County moved on to the final eight. Friday’s quarterfinal winners were Great Crossing, Lyon County, Harlan County ...
Harlan County is a county located in southeastern Kentucky.As of the 2020 census, the population was 26,831. [1] Its county seat is Harlan. [2] It is classified as a moist county—one in which alcohol sales are prohibited (a dry county), but containing a "wet" city—in this case Cumberland, where package alcohol sales are allowed.
Joe Collins, football, East Stroudsburg University Central Bucks East senior Joe Collins will play his college football at East Stroudsburg University. Jack Corrigan, football, Moravian University
The final straw was when the Harlan County Coal Operators Association cut miners' wages by 10%. [3] After this, the first strike occurred, in which only about 13% of strikers showed up to work. Out of all these battles, the Battle of Evarts was one of the most violent.