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The
exhibit "Which Side Are You On?" examines the parallels
between the coal strike in Matewan, West Virginia evoked in Diane
Gilliam Fisher's Kettle
Bottom, and that of "bloody" Harlan County, Kentucky
in 1931, as documented by radical journalist Jessie Lloyd O'Connor,
and illuminates the economic and cultural clashes that percolated
throughout the era of Appalachian industrialization.
Neilson
Library
Level 1 Core
August-September 2005
The
exhibit features letters, clippings, articles, photos, song lyrics
and other items from the Jessie
Lloyd O'Connor Papers in the SSC. Jessie was a 1925 graduate
of Smith and a young leftist journalist when she was sent to cover
the Harlan County, Kentucky strike in 1931. She survived threats
to her personal safety (one is exhibited) and wrote movingly of
the plight of the miners and their families.
For
more information about the O'Connor papers, please visit the Sophia
Smith Collection.
Information
about the First-Year Summer Reading Program can be found here.
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