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The Harlan County War, or Bloody Harlan, was a series of coal industry skirmishes, executions, bombings and strikes (both attempted and realized) that took place in Harlan County, Kentucky, during the 1930s.
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Jun 4, 2000 · Harlan County War: Directed by Tony Bill. With Holly Hunter, Stellan Skarsgård, Ted Levine, Wayne Robson. A Kentucky woman whose mine-worker husband is nearly killed in a cave-in, and whose father is slowly dying of black lung disease, joins the picket lines for a long, violent strike.
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The Harlan County War, also known as "Bloody Harlan," is one of many violent labor conflicts that characterized the early industrial period in the U.S. Although underemphasized in modern curriculums, these struggles have large implications on present-day American labor rights and the broader economic structure.
In the 1930s, miners in Harlan County, Kentucky fought back against coal mine operators in a bitter and long-lasting labor dispute. Learn about the Harlan County War, the pay cuts, lockouts, and executions that occurred.
Harlan County War ★★½ 2000 Ruby Kincaid (Hunter) is the wife of striking Kentucky coal miner Silas (Levine). After a court order severely restricts the union members' protests, Ruby leads the wives into action, even allowing her arrest to be used as propaganda by union rep Warren Jakopovich (Skarsgard) to her husband's dismay.
Mar 13, 2011 · On May 5, 1931 the pot boiled over, in Harlan County Kentucky. Big armed deputies and company men, called “gun thugs” by miners, confronted some union men on a road near Evarts. The coal miners, lean and tough from Kentucky mountain life, knew how to fight back.
A Kentucky woman whose mine-worker husband is nearly killed in a cave-in, and whose father is slowly dying of black lung, joins the picket lines for a long, violent strike.
