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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Rush Dew Holt (1905-1955) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0873
Overview Papers of Rush Dew Holt, Sr. (1905-1955) relating to his personal and political activities. Types of material include publications, clippings, correspondence, photographs, and ephemera, among others. The collection is divided into six series: Personal and Political Papers (1840-2000 and undated), Artifacts (1939-1952 and undated), Legislative Records (1920-1955 and undated), Constituent Services (1923-1954 and undated), Press and Media Activity (1925-2003 and undated), and Administrative...
Dates: 1840-2003; Majority of material found within 1918-1955

Van Amberg Bittner (1885-1949), Labor Leader, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1698
Overview UMWA international representative and organizer, member of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, director of the CIO Organizing Committee, and vice-chairman of the CIO Political Action Committee Correspondence, legal papers, diaries, clippings, and other papers relate to Bittner's early career in the western Pennsylvania coal fields; his presidency of District 5, UMWA, 1911-1916; and his organizational activities in southeastern Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, northern West Virginia,...
Dates: 1908-1961

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Alabama 1
Coal mining - camps and company towns. 1
Coal mining -- Strikes 1
Diaries and journals. 1
Education 1