We Be Here When Morning Comes eBook by Bryan Woolley
We Be Here When the Morning Comes is a book about people and courage and dignity striving to attain a measure of control over their lives and destinies. It is also a book about Appalachia and about the American labor movement. It describes, from the point of view of the striking mountaineers, the thirteen-month strike at the Brookside and Highsplint coal mines in Harlan County, KY—a strike marked by sporadic violence, controversial court orders, arrests of miners’ wives, the death of one striker, and the threat of open warfare between union supporters and ‘scabs.’
We Be Here When the Morning Comes is a book about people and courage and dignity striving to attain a measure of control over their lives and destinies. It is also a book about Appalachia and about the American labor movement. It describes, from the point of view of the striking mountaineers, the thirteen-month strike at the Brookside and Highsplint coal mines in Harlan County, KY—a strike marked by sporadic violence, controversial court orders, arrests of miners’ wives, the death of one striker, and the threat of open warfare between union supporters and ‘scabs.’
We Be Here When the Morning Comes is a book about people and courage and dignity striving to attain a measure of control over their lives and destinies. It is also a book about Appalachia and about the American labor movement. It describes, from the point of view of the striking mountaineers, the thirteen-month strike at the Brookside and Highsplint coal mines in Harlan County, KY—a strike marked by sporadic violence, controversial court orders, arrests of miners’ wives, the death of one striker, and the threat of open warfare between union supporters and ‘scabs.’
about the author
Bryan Woolley (1937-2015) was a staff writer for The Dallas Morning News from 1989 until his retirement in 2006. Previously, he worked at newspapers including The Anniston Star in Alabama, The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Ky., and the Dallas Times Herald. Woolley, who earned degrees at the University of Texas at El Paso, Texas Christian University and Harvard University, was the author of several books, including the novels November 22 and Some Sweet Day, and several compilations of his newspaper work. He received many honors for his writing, including the PEN West Literary Journalism Award, three Stanley Walker Newspaper Journalism Awards and an O. Henry Magazine Journalism Award from the Texas Institute of Letters.
