In the turbulent spring of 1941, against the backdrop of the long and violent struggle for unionization in the coal mines of Harlan County, Kentucky, a 35-year-old man named Oscar Goodin, who was White, found himself on the front lines of a bitter dispute. As a picket for the Congress of Industrial Organizations he was one of many miners striving for better wages and working conditions in a region that had come to be known as 'Bloody Harlan' due to its history of labor-related violence.
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