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LABOR HISTORY TODAY: Florence Reece

Chris Garlock | Published on 8/3/2024
August 3, 1986
Florence Reece dies in Knoxville, Tenn. at 86. She was a Mine Workers union activist and author of "Which Side Are You On?", written after her home was ransacked by Harlan County county sheriff J.H. Blair and his thugs during a 1931 strike.