One hundred years ago coal fields struck by Amazon Army

Editor’s note--This is the second installment in a series of articles on the centennial anniversary of the Amazon Army coalfield marches in December 1921. The phrase A man works from sun to sun, but a woman’s work is never done aptly describes the life of a woman who during the first half of the twentieth century would find herself taking care of her family in a coal camp; ...

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