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"There Wasn't a Mine Runnin' a Lump O' Coal": A Kentucky Coal Miner Remembers the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919
Author: Center for History and New Media/American Social History Project
Subject: Humanities
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American Social History Project/Center for History and New Media
Collection Name: Many Pasts (CHNM/ASHP)
Abstract: In 1918 the Spanish influenza hit the United States and then the rest of the world with such swiftness that it sometimes went unnoticed until it had already passed. By mid-1919 it had killed more people than any other disease in a similar period in the history of the world. Kentucky coal miner Teamus Bartley was interviewed at ninety-five years of age and vividly recalled the impact of the flu pandemic on his community. With a dearth of healthy laborers, the mines shut down for six weeks in 1918 and miners went from digging coal to digging graves. DetailsSpecific
Types of Materials: Teaching and Learning Strategies
Language: English
Conditions of Use: No License Reviews
By: Ethel Stanley
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