Coal Employment Project
Biography
In the spring of 1977 members of two Jacksboro, Tennessee public interest groups, the East Tennessee Research Corporation (ETRC) and Save Our Cumberland Mountains, planned a trip into an underground mine in Campbell County, Tennessee. Upon learning that a woman was to be on the tour, the local mine operator refused permission for her to go underground because of the superstition, long held by male miners, that women are "bad luck" in the mines. As a consequence of this incident, ETRC's director, Neil McBride, contacted a friend, Betty Jean Hall, then working as a lawyer in a Washington, D.C. firm, to do research on both women in mining and federal law on gender discrimination in hiring miners. Hall complied with McBride's request and provided the information.
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Coal Employment Project (CEP) Records
Kipp Dawson Papers
June M. Rostan Papers
The collection is arranged into three series. Series 1, Personal Papers, 1975-1982; Series 2, Professional Papers, 1976-1994; Series 3, Audio Cassettes, undated.
Women Coal Miners Reunion
The Women Coal Miners reunion brought together current and former women coal miners and their families from the United States and England. The event was organized by Marat Moore and held in Jonesborough, Tennessee at the Archives of Appalachia, the Jonesborough Repertory Theatre and the host hotel. This collection consists of materials generated for and during the event, including excerpts from video interviews with 13 women coal miners and the son of a woman coal miner.
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- Subject
- Coal mines and mining 3
- Photographs 3
- Coal mines and mining -- Appalachian Region 2
- Publications (document genre) 2
- Coal mines and mining -- Safety measures 1
- Corporation records 1
- Correspondence 1
- Ledgers (account books) 1
- Lignite industry--Texas 1
- Memphis Furniture Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1980 1
- Mine safety 1
- Miners--Health and hygiene 1
- Minutes (administrative records) 1
- Negatives (photographic) 1
- Newsletters 1
- Parental leave 1
- Personal papers 1
- Pittston Coal Company Strike, 1989-1990 1
- Pregnant women--Employment 1 + ∧ less