Kentucky Miners Defense photographs [graphic] . 1931-1939.

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Kentucky Miners Defense photographs [graphic] . 1931-1939.

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The collection of 44 photographs, almost all of which are black and white 8x10 copy prints, is made up of images of the convicted miners and their families used for publicity purposes by the Kentucky Miners' Defense. There are also views of the area where the strike took place. The shots of Harlan County were used by the defense in the 1932 Court versus Hightower case. Additional images show Mahler with the four defendants, Al Benson, Chester Poore, W.B. Jones and Jim Reynolds; three of the defendants leaving a reformatory with their wives; and two portraits of Dolly Hudson Daniels, a dramatic witness for the defense because she was the wife of the chief mine guard who was killed. Also pictured are William Hightower and Elzie Phillips.

44 photoprints : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. and 5 x7 in.

Churchill County Museum

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Churchill County Museum

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Hightower, William Clayton, 1838-1919

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Mahler, Herbert

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Reynolds, Jimmy

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Phillips, Elzie

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Kentucky Miners Defense (Organization).

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The Kentucky Miners Defense was formed to help free seven miners convicted of murdering three coal company guards in Evarts, Harlan County, Kentucky during the miners' strike in May 1931. Herbert Mahler (a former activist in the Industrial Workers of the World), director of the organization, spearheaded the publicity campaign to bring national attention to the miners ̀€case. Fund-raising publicity was often aimed at unions and their members since the Kentucky miners had been attempting to organiz...

Benson, Alphonsus 1918-

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Daniels, Dolly Hudson

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Jones, W. B.

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