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Oscar Goodin

Case from Harlan, KY dated Apr 02, 1941

Victim Details

Oscar Goodin

Male

Harlan

KY

1941-04-02

35

Oscar

Goodin

07/10/2026

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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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