Front cover image for Pistol packin' Mama : Aunt Molly Jackson and the politics of folksong

Pistol packin' Mama : Aunt Molly Jackson and the politics of folksong

Print Book, English, ©1999
University of Illinois Press, Urbana, ©1999
Biography
xi, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780252024214, 9780252067280, 0252024214, 0252067282
39033302
"Hard times in Coleman's mines": coal and community in the Kentucky mountains
"I am a union woman": the Communist National Miners Union comes to Harlan County, Kentucky
"I was born and raised in old Kentucky": Aunt Molly Jackson's first fifty years
"Christmas Eve on the East Side": Aunt Molly moves to New York City
"Girl of constant sorrow": Molly's sister, Sarah Ogan Gunning
"White pilgrims in the foreign heathen country": Molly, Sarah, and the politics of folksong
"Dreadful memories": class-conscious wives, radical mothers
Reflections: "Be a grievin' after me."