Harlan Miners Speak: Report on Terrorism in the Kentucky Coal Fields

The Dreiser Committee, including writers Theodore Dreiser, John Dos Passos, and Sherwood Anderson, investigated the desperate situation of striking Kentucky miners in November 1931. When the Communist-led National Miners Union competed against the more conservative United Mine Workers of America for greater union membership, class resentment turned to warfare. Harlan Miners Speak, originally published in 1932, is an invaluable record that illustrates the living and working conditions of the min

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Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 04/18/2008
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.78w x 0.93d
ISBN: 9780813191874

About the Author
Hennen, John C.: - John C. Hennen earned his doctorate at West Virginia University and is currently a visiting instructor of history at the University of Kentucky.

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