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An Army of Amazons
12016-04-26T11:32:36-07:00Jennifer Katzerc3846a5de27f6c938df2d2f8dec5cd07e2a0aed194081Photos of the Amazon Armyplain2016-04-26T11:32:36-07:00Jennifer Katzerc3846a5de27f6c938df2d2f8dec5cd07e2a0aed1
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1media/amazon army.jpg2016-04-14T11:29:04-07:00The Amazon Army11image_header2016-05-21T13:59:14-07:00Feminism in the 1920’s was booming in America. It reached into almost every walk of life, and every socio-economic class. The coal mines of Southeast Kansas was no exception. While women were rallying for the fight to vote and fair labor standards, the mining women were getting their say as well. On December 12, 1921, a group of fed up women who were wives, sisters, mothers and friends of the coal miners took the mines to task for using “scab” employment to keep their mines open during strikes. These women effectively shut down the mines for three days and brought mining to a standstill at over 60 mines. They were known as “The Amazon Army”