Conditions Governing Use

The donor of this collection has transferred rights to the intellectual property they created to the Center. For more information regarding permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the West Virginia and Regional History Center

Conditions Governing Access

No special access restriction applies.

Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Libby Lindsay Dingess Papers, A&M 4569, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Dingess, Libby Lindsay, 2022 November 04

Scope and Contents

Newspaper clippings, papers and other materials from various coal mining operations, as well as various materials from the Coal Employment Project and the United Mine Workers of America union. Other materials include papers on employment equality, newsletters from the Coal Mining Women's Support Team News, and coal mining strikes in the late 1980s to early 1990s. Also included in the collection are stickers and pins relating to coal mining and various coal mining conferences throughout the country.

Digital files include scans of photographs of women miners and Coal Employment Project conferences loaned for digitization.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Coal Employment Project
• Coal mines and mining
• Sex discrimination in employment
• West Virginia Feminist Activist Collection
• Women blue collar workers
• Women's rights