Harlan, Kentucky, is known as Bloody Harlan because of the violent labor strikes and conflicts between coal miners and mining companies that took place during what was dubbed the Harlan County War, which lasted for nearly a decade in the 1930s. Because coal mining remained central to the area’s economy for decades, conflict between workers and companies persisted, resulting in strikes and deadly violence again in the 1970s.
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