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[Identification of item], Coal and Labor Collection, Appalachian Collection, McConnell Library, Radford University, Radford, VA. Appalachian Coal, Labor, and Activism Book & Pamphlet Collection , Accession # AC 013, University Archives, McConnell Library, Radford University
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This collection contains various pamphlets, documents, reports, and other materials related to coal mining and labor unions, primarily in the southern Appalachian coal fields. Topics include Mother Jones, labor strikes, mining safety, labor organizing, labor newspapers, the Paint Creek strike of 1912-13, and other topics. Many of the descriptions were written by Lorne Bair of Lorne Bair Rare Books, and are used with his permission. Also includes a number of non-fiction books, novels, plays, reports, and related to coal mining, labor unions, Appalachian activism, Appalachian music, and other regional topics. A number of the pamphlets were originally published by Appalachian Movement Press of Huntington, WV.
Box 1. Government Documents, Pamphlets, Booklets, Flyers and Ephemera
Box 2. International Correspondence Schools
Box 3. Documents, Pamphlets, Booklets, Flyers and Ephemera