Hazel Dickens
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Hazel Jane Dickens was an American bluegrass singer, songwriter, double bassist, guitarist and banjo player. Her music was characterized not only by her high, lonesome singing style, but also by her p
Hazel Dickens
Dickens was known for her activism on behalf of non-unionized mineworkers
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Harlan County, USA
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Harlan County USA is a 1976 American documentary film covering the "Brookside Strike", a 1973 effort of 180 coal miners and their wives against the Duke Power Company-owned Eastover Coal Company's Bro
Hazel Dickens
…musician, Carl Rutherford. Dickens began to be seen as an activist and a voice for the working people. She appeared in the Oscar-winning documentary Harlan County, USA, which centers on the struggle of the county's miners union against scab workers, wage rights, and health conditions; she contributed four songs to the…
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