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  Hazel Nunn, November 19, 1993

  Hazel Nunn describes her experience of being a coal miner's wife in Harlan County (Ky.). She recollects the constant worry about her husband's safety, the…
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  Lula King Davis, April 16,…

  Davis discusses life growing up in a rural area of Virginia before marrying and moving into a coal town, as well as her ideas on the future of rural areas.
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  Daisy Murphy, March 19, 1994

  Daisy Murphy talks about her experience of being a daughter and also a wife of coal miners. She describes growing up in coal mines and raising her children in…
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  Linda Ruth Lester, May 28,…

  Linda Ruth Lester tells of her life as a coal miner and activist for women's work in coal. She discusses safety issues, sexism, and coal mining issues around…
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  Alicia Bonita Fletcher, April…

  Alicia describes her family members, many of whom were and are coal miners in Buchanan County (Va.). She talks about her own life, growing up in poverty and…
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  Pam Ramsey, February 19, 1994

  Ramsey discusses her job, hopes, and fears as a physicians' assistant in Gary, West Virginia.
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  Constance Elaine Childress,…

  Childress discusses her career as a teacher, referee, and coach in Buchanan County, Virginia.
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  Marie Cirillo, September 25,…

  Marie Cirillo describes her decades of experience working with coal miners in Appalachia. She talks about her passion for understanding the reasons why miners…
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  Granny Baldwin, November 13,…

  Granny Baldwin discusses her life growing up in rural Eastern Kentucky during the Great Depression and World War II.
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  Mary Jack Hargis, May 28, 1994

  Hargis discusses her family, parents, grandparents, and siblings. The Hargis family migrated to the region in the 1800s. Hargis tells how she got her first job…
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  Bertha Mae Lacy, March 18,…

  Lacy remarried after her first husband died from tuberculosis. Lacy describes poverty and racial segregation. Lacy attended an African American high school. She…
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  Nannie B. Spencer, March 18,…

  Spencer married a coal miner at age sixteen, in 1938. They had twelve children: eight sons and four daughters, whom they raised in the coal fields. She…
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  Dorothy Jones Hall, May 14,…

  [This interview takes place amid a lot of background noise.]
  
  Growing up in the coalfields, Hall felt underprivileged. Her parents worked very hard so that…
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  Patricia M. Hatfield, April…

  Patricia M. Hatfield discusses her life and her career as a coal miner. Topics include a discussion of her early life in southwest Virginia, education,…
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  Helen K. Carson, March 19,…

  Helen K. Carson discusses her life and career as a coal miner in McDowell County, West Virginia. Topics include education, as well as economic and community…
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  Angelene Harmon, March 19,…

  Angelene Harmon discusses her life and career as a coal miner in Caretta, West Virginia. Topics include early life, family as well as changes occurring to the…
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  Jeanette Gilpin, November 13,…

  Jeanette Gilpin discusses her life and career as a coal miner in Harlan County, Kentucky. Gilpin discusses early life in Harlan, floods, elections,…
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  Alice Chaney, April 9, 1994

  Alice Chaney, originally from Beatyville, Kentucky, describes her life and career as a detective with the Kentucky State Highway Patrol in Harlan County,…
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  Geneva Steele, March 19, 1994

  Geneva Steele describes her life and career as a coal miner in Caretta, West Virginia. Topics include family history, mine accidents and the future of her…
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  Frances Rutherford, March 19,…

  Frances Rutherford describes her life and career in Caretta, West Virginia. Rutherford describes family history and childhood, as well as working at a law firm…
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  Virginia Beavers, March 19,…

  Virginia Beavers discusses her life and family in Caretta and Coalwood, West Virginia, her husband's career as a coal miner. Beavers discusses life in Caretta…
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  Vondelere Scott, March 18,…

  Vondelere Scott discusses her life and family in McDowell County, West Virginia. Scott discusses education, as well as various community services in McDowell…
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  Patsy C. Lockhart, May 26,…

  Patsy Lockhart discusses her life and family in Grundy, Virginia. Topics include family, education, the Vietnam War, religion and community.
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  Dameta Long, March 19, 1994

  Dameta Long describes her life and family in Caretta, West Virginia. Topics include family and childhood in McDowell County, West Virginia, her education,…
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  Jean Elizabeth Moses,…

  Jean Moses discusses her family and life in Jellico, Tennessee. Moses discusses her involvement in children's theatre in the community as well as issues…
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  Mary Alice Yates, May 28, 1994

  Mary Alice Yates describes her life, family and career working in the coal mines. Topics include her childhood and family, education and working in the coal…
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  Alta Whitaker, November 13,…

  Alta Whitaker discusses her life and and family in Kitts, Kentucky. Whitaker describes living conditions in a coal camp, living in a coal community, company…
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  Linda C. Underwood, March 19,…

  Linda Underwood describes her life and family in Caretta, West Virginia. Underwood discusses growing up in coal fields, community development, reuse of…
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  Jennie G. Caldwell, May 14,…

  Jennie Caldwell discusses her life in Harlan, Kentucky. Caldwell discusses life in coal community, healthcare in Harlan County and her Native American heritage…
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  Clara Kindrick Deal, April 15,…

  Deal discusses her experience as an herbalist as well as the work of midwives in Hayside, Virginia, during the early twentieth century.
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  Janet Yates, April 15, 1994

  Janet Yates discusses her affliction with dermatomyositis and her life with her also-disabled husband in the coal fields.
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  Verna Mae Slone, [n.d.]

  Writer Verna Mae Slone talks about the impact of the coal industry on her family and the region, as well as her children, deceased husband, and writing.
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  Opal Geraldine Reynolds, May…

  Opal Geraldine Reynolds discusses her and her friends' work as woman coal miners.
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  Helen H. Holley, March 18,…

  Holley relates her early education experience in a one-room schoolhouse in Boone, North Carolina before moving to Columbus, Ohio. She moved to Gary, West…
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  Deborah King, April 18, 1994

  King describes her childhood in Paint Creek and the nearby coal mine. King did not think that black people were coal miners, but she realized later that her…
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  Christine Francis Neal…

  Christine Williams discusses her life growing up as an African American in a West Virginia coal mining town during the Great Depression and World War II. She…
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  Addie Davis,

  Davis discusses her experience with teaching, her role as the Director of Economic Development in McDowell County, West Virginia, as well as her views on the…
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  Sarah Josephine Barton, April…

  Sarah Josephine Barton and her brother discuss their lives as farmers in southwestern Virginia, as well as the environmental effects of the coal industry and…
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  Angie Mutter,

  Mutter describes life as an outsider moving into the coal mining region. She became a preschool teacher and a librarian in Grundy, Virginia. She describes the…
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  Wilma Davis Boggs, May 14,…

  Wilma Davis Boggs discusses her involvement with Native American historical societies from her home in Harlan, Kentucky, inspired by her dad's secret Native…