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Summary Information
Committee for Miners Records
1963-1965
Mss 39; Micro 829; PH 5034
0.8 cubic feet (3 archives boxes), 1 reel of microfilm (35 mm), and 0.1 cubic feet of photographs (1 folder)
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Records of the Committee for Miners (CFM), an organization formed to raise funds for legal and economic assistance to unemployed miners in eastern Kentucky, together with related personal papers of Peter B. Wiley, a field worker for CFM. The Committee's initial purpose was to raise funds for the defense of eight unemployed miners accused of conspiring to dynamite the L&N railroad bridge in Perry, Kentucky; its larger purpose was protection of rights and liberties for the unemployed in the mining region. Included are correspondence between staff members such as Hamish Sinclair and Arthur Gorman in New York and field workers and miners such as Bernard Gibson in Hazard, Kentucky, national union leaders, and other concerned individuals such as Rennie Davis and Carl and Anne Braden; reports; planning material for the Appalachian Summer Project in which CFM cooperated with SDS; microfilmed clippings; printed matter; and Wiley's notes, writings, and a 1964 diary. Miscellaneous similar papers are presented for the miners' own committee, the Appalachian Committee for Full Employment, and the Appalachian Economic and Political Action Conference.
English
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