Hellraisers Journal: Photographs of the “Amazon Army” of Wives and Daughters of Striking Coal Miners of Southeast Kansas

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Quote Mother Jones, Raising Hell, NYC Oct 5, 1916———————-

Hellraisers Journal – Friday December 23, 1921
Coal Mining Region of Southeastern Kansas- “Amazon Army” Raises Hell

From the New York Evening World of December 20, 1921:

NY Eve Wld, p10, Dec 29, 1921

SIX MORE WOMEN RIOTERS ARRESTED
Police of State and Nation Extend
Drive in Kansas Coal Field
Against Bootlegging.

PITTSBURG, Kan., Dec. 20. Six more women, charged with unlawful assembly in connection with the coal mine riots were under arrest today as State and county officials broadened their offensive against illegal rum venders, radicals and other undesirables of the mine fields….

From Washington Evening Star of December 21, 1921:

WDC Eve Str p24, Dec 21, 1921

From the Albuquerque Evening Herald of December 22, 1921:

Albq NM Eve Hld p7

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Albq NM Eve Hld p7

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SOURCES & IMAGES

Quote Mother Jones, Raising Hell, NYC Oct 5, 1916
-from Speech to Wives of New York Carmen 

The Evening World
(New York, New York)
-Dec 20, 1921, p10
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030193/1921-12-20/ed-1/seq-10/

The Evening Star
(Washington, D. C.)
-Dec 21, 1921, p24
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1921-12-21/ed-1/seq-24/

The Evening Herald
(Albuquerque, New Mexico)
-Dec 22, 1921, p7
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn92070582/1921-12-22/ed-1/seq-7/

See also:

Tag: UMW Kansas Amazon Army of 1921
https://weneverforget.org/tag/umw-kansas-amazon-army-of-1921/

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Am A Union Woman – Deborah Holland