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When the boss sat in the same pew: Crittenden County and the mining that didn’t turn bloody

Robert Ordway
Posted 7/23/26

In the 1930s, as Harlan County, Kentucky, erupted into one of the most violent labor conflicts in American history, a quiet reality was unfolding two hundred miles to the west. In Crittenden County, men went into the ground every morning to dig fluorspar—a mineral essential to building the steel for Allied ships, the aluminum for […]

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