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by the National Miners Union. The law enforcement agents in Harlan County had lined up with the coal operators, whose strike-breaking activities had led to many bloody clashes with the miners.
Harlan County This strike caught the imagination of American students across the country. One of the nationally organized groups-the National Students League-initiated a project that would give students a first-hand look at the coal-miners' strike.
Pilgrimages by chartered buses were organized to bring students to Harlan County. The central purpose was to have students observe the strike and bring back an honest depiction of the struggle. The first bus left Columbia University on March 23, 1932.
The reception the students received was not what they expected. Before any of the buses could even reach Harlan County, they were headed off by mobs of deputies and attorneys for the coal operators who threatened them with lynching.
Every bus was turned back. Students nationwide were outraged. Campus publica -AY 1987
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students was war and how to stop it."