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Harlan County, USA is a 1976 American documentary film covering the "Brookside Strike", [1] a 1973 effort of 180 coal miners and their wives against the Duke Power Company-owned Eastover Coal Company's Brookside Mine and Prep Plant in Harlan County, southeast Kentucky. It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary at the 49th Academy Awards.
The 1976 documentary film Harlan County, USA, winner of the 1977 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, focuses on similar labor violence of the 1970s but refers to the 1930s violence as context. (Florence Reece appears in the film.) The 2000 television movie Harlan County War starred Holly Hunter.
Harlan is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Harlan County, Kentucky, United States. [3] The population was 1,745 at the 2010 census, [4] down from 2,081 at the 2000 census. Harlan is one of three Kentucky county seats to share its name with its county, the others being Greenup and Henderson.
Harlan County is a county located in southeastern Kentucky.As of the 2020 census, the population was 26,831. [1] Its county seat is Harlan. [2] It is classified as a moist county—one in which alcohol sales are prohibited (a dry county), but containing a "wet" city—in this case Cumberland, where package alcohol sales are allowed.
The Battle of Evarts (May 5, 1931) occurred in Harlan, Kentucky during the Harlan County Wars. The coal miners desired improved working conditions, higher wages, and more housing options for their families. [1] These reasons, along with other factors, led the miners to go on strike.
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Dizney is an unincorporated community in Harlan County, Kentucky, United States. Its post office [1] was active from 1918 until 1993. [2] Dizney was most likely named for local educator Elizah Franklin Dizney. [3]
As reported in a May 23, 2006 story in The Courier-Journal, [2] "Investigator thinks methane to blame for Darby mine explosion," by Deborah Yetter and Tom Loftus, at a news conference in Holmes Mill, Kentucky on May 22, 2006, Chuck Wolfe, spokesman for Kentucky's Environmental and Public Protection Cabinet announced that investigators entered the mine for the first time since the explosion on ...