Which Florence Reece Song was written during United Mine Workers Strike?
Florence Reece Florence Reece (1900–1986) was an American social activist, poet, and folksong writer. She is best known for the song ""Which Side Are You On?"" which she wrote in 1931 during the Harlan County strike.
Ellen Dawson Ellen "Nellie" Dawson Kanki (14 December 1900 - 17 April 1967), best known as Ellen Dawson, was a Scottish-American political activist and trade union organizer in the textile industry. Dawson is best remembered as an active participant in three of the greatest textile strikes of the 1920s; the 1926 Passaic textile strike, the 1928 New Bedford textile strike, and the 1929 Loray Mill strike in Gastonia, North Carolina. An activist in the Communist Party USA during the 1920s, Dawson was the first woman ever elected to a leadership position in an American textile union.