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Week of April 12, 2010

Coal Mines / Wilma Mankiller (1945-2010)

In the News: At least 25 people were killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch coal mine in Raleigh County, West Virginia. Massey Energy owns the mine and, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, had been cited over 400 times for safety violations in 2009.

Also In the News: Also In the News: Wilma Mankiller, the first female chief of the Cherokee Nation from 1985 to 1995, has died at the age of 64.

COAL MINES

African American Miners and Migrants: the Eastern Kentucky Social Club
By Thomas E. Wagner and Phillip J. Obermiller. University of Illinois Press, 2004
Call Number: E185.5 .W34 2004

Another Civil War: Labor, Capital, and the State in the Anthracite Regions of Pennsylvania, 1840-68
By Grace Palladino. University Illinois Press, 1990
Call Number: HD8039 .M62 U6493 1990 (Also available online via NetLibrary)

Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America’s Energy Future
By Jeff Goodell. Houghton Mifflin Co., 2006
Call Number: TN805 .A5 G685 2006

Black Coal Miners in America: Race, Class, and Community Conflict, 1780-1980
By Ronald L. Lewis. University Press of Kentucky, 1987
Call Number: HD8039 .M62 U6443 1987

Black Lung: Anatomy of a Public Health Disaster
By Alan Derickson. Cornell University Press, 1998
Call Number: RC733 .D44 1998

Bloody Harlan: The United Mine Workers of America in Harlan County, Kentucky, 1931-1941
By Paul F. Taylor. University Press of America, 1989
Call Number: HD6515 .M615 T39 1990

Bonecrusher (DVD)
Directed by Michael F. Fountain. New Day Films, 2009
“In Dante, Virginia, at the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, generations of coal miners maintain traditions of working hard and dying young.”
Call Number: F217 .A65 B66 2009 (Boca Raton Media Center)

Buxton: Work and Racial Equality in a Coal Mining Community
By Dorothy Schwieder et al. Iowa State University Press, 1987
Call Number: HD8039 .M62 U66825 1987

The Challenge of Interracial Unionism: Alabama Coal Miners, 1878-1921
By Daniel Letwin. University of North Carolina Press, 1998
Call Number: HD6515 .M615 L478 1998 (Also available online via NetLibrary)

Coal Miners on Strike
Pathfinder, 1981
Call Number: HD8039 .M6152 U634 1981

Collective Bargaining and the Decline of the United Mine Workers
By Charles R. Perry. Industrial Research Unit, the Wharton School, U of Pennsylvania, 1984
Call Number: HD6516 .M615 P47 1984

Cooperative Pluralism: The National Coal Policy Experiment
By Andrew S. McFarland. University Press of Kansas, 1993
Call Number: HD9546 .M33 1993

Daughters of the Hills: A Woman’s Part in the Coal Miners’ Struggle
By Myra Page. Feminist Press at the City University Of New York, 1986, 1950
Call Number: PS3531 .A235 W5 1986

Daughters of the Mountain: Women Coal Miners in Central Appalachia
By Suzanne E. Tallichet. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006
Call Number: HD6073 .M62 U68 2006 (Also available via NetLibrary)

Harlan County U.S.A. (DVD)
Directed by Barbara Kopple. Criterion Collection, 2006 (1976)
“In 1973 the coal miners in Harlan County, Kentucky struck against the operators of the Brookside mine and the Duke Power Company,…”
Call Number: HD5325 .M62 1973 H37 2006 (Boca Raton Media Center)

In the Kingdom of Coal: An American Family and the Rock That Changed the World
By Dan Rottenberg. Routledge, 2003
Call Number: HD9550 .L4 R68 2003

Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War
By Thomas G. Andrews. Harvard University Press, 2008
Call Number: HD5325 .M63 1913 C736 2008

The Legacy of King Coal (VHS)
Produced by Stephen Land. A&E Home Video, 1997
“Chronicle of the coal industry, featuring extensive footage of coal mining through the years.”
Call Number: HD9545 .L44 1997 (Boca Raton Media Center)

Mining Women: Gender in the Development of a Global Industry, 1670-2005
Edited by Jaclyn J. Gier and Laurie Mercier. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
Call Number: HD6073 .M6 M56 2006

Moving Mountains: How One Woman and Her Community Won Justice from Big Coal
By Penny Loeb. University Press of Kentucky, 2007
Call Number: Available online via NetLibrary

A New South Rebellion: The Battle Against Convict Labor in the Tennessee Coalfields, 1871-1896
By Karin A. Shapiro. University of North Carolina Press, 1998
Call Number: HD5325 .M615 S48 1998 (Also available via NetLibrary)

The United Mine Workers of America: A Model of Industrial Solidarity?
Edited by John H. M. Laslett. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996
Call Number: HD6515 .M616 U5584 1996

Where the Sun Never Shines: A History of America’s Bloody Coal Industry
By Priscilla Long. Paragon House, 1989
Call Number: HD8039 .M62 U6444 1989

Women in the Mines: Stories of Life and Work
By Marat Moore. Twayne Publishers, 1996
Call Number: HD6073 .M6152 U65 1996

WILMA MANKILLER (1945-2010)

American Voices: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Orators
Edited by Bernard K. Duffy and Richard W. Leeman. Greenwood Press, 2005
Call Number: PS408 .A47 2005

Aniyunwiya/Real Human Beings: An Anthology of Contemporary Cherokee Prose
Edited by Joseph Bruchac. Greenfield Review Press, 1995
Call Number: PS647 .I5 A54 1995

Beloved Women: The Political Lives of Ladonna Harris and Wilma Mankiller
By Sarah Eppler Janda. Northern Illinois University Press, 2007
Call Number: E98 .W8 J36 2007

Every Day is a Good Day: Reflections by Contemporary Indigenous Women
Written by Wilma Mankiller. Fulcrum Pub, 2004
Call Number: E98 .W8 M25 2004

Mankiller: A Chief and Her People
By Wilma Mankiller and Michael Wallis. St. Martin’s Press, 1993
Call Number: E99 .C5 M335 1993

The Native Americans. 3, The Southeast: No Matter How White (VHS)
Directed by John Borden. Turner Home Entertainment, 1994
Call Number: E77 .N3524 1994 (Boca Raton Media Center)

The New Warriors: Native American Leaders Since 1900
Edited by R. David Edmunds. University Nebraska Press, 2001
Call Number: Available online via North American Indian Thought and Culture and NetLibrary

The Reader’s Companion to U.S. Women’s History
Edited by Wilma Mankiller, et al. Houghton Mifflin Co, 1998
Call Number: Available online via NetLibrary

Readings in American Indian Law: Recalling the Rhythm of Survival
Edited by Jo Carrillo. Temple University Press, 1998
Call Number: KF8204.5 .R424 1998 (At Jupiter)

Telling Political Lives: The Rhetorical Autobiographies of Women Leaders in the United States
Edited by Brenda DeVore Marsha and Molly A. Mayhead. Lexington Books, 2008
Call Number: HQ1391 .U5 T45 2008

Women of Strength: Biographies of 106 Who Have Excelled in Traditionally Male Fields, A.D. 61 to the Present
By Louis Baldwin. McFarland, 1996
Call Number: HQ1123 .B35 1996