Dougherty, Lena - Interview and Memoir
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- 1986
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Lena Dougherty, daughter of an Italian immigrant coal miner and wife of a Southern Illinois coal miner, recalls her family background and childhood near Auburn, Illinois: education, immigrant neighborhood, and marriage. She discusses the problems between the PMA and UMW, the effect on the residents of Tovey, problems faced by the families of miners, violence between unions, the Mulkeytown march, role of the Catholic Church in Kincaid during the d...
- Creator
Dougherty, Lena b. 1903
- Contributing Institution
- University of Illinois at Springfield
- Subjects
- Auburn (Ill.)
Catholics
Churches
Coal Mines and Mining
Kincaid (Ill.)
Mulkeytown (Ill.)--Coal Miners' March, 1932 - Language
- English
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- © Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. For permission to reproduce, distribute, or otherwise use this material, please contact: Archives/Special Collections, University of Illinois at Springfield, One University Plaza, MS BRK 140, Springfield IL 62703-5407. Phone: (217) 206-6520. http://library.uis.edu/archives/index.html
- Chicago citation style
- Dougherty, Lena b. 1903. Dougherty, Lena - Interview and Memoir. 1986. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://www.idaillinois.org/cdm/ref/collection/uis/id/1851. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Dougherty, Lena b. 1903, (1986) Dougherty, Lena - Interview and Memoir. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://www.idaillinois.org/cdm/ref/collection/uis/id/1851
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- Dougherty, Lena b. 1903. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://www.idaillinois.org/cdm/ref/collection/uis/id/1851>.