We Dig Coal: A Portrait of Three Women
- Producing Organization
- WETA-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.)
- State of the Art, Inc.
- Contributing Organization
- The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia (Athens, Georgia)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip-526-v69862cp3v
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- Description
- Program Description
- "On October 2, 1979, Marilyn McCusker was working deep under the soil of central Pennsylvania. It had taken her two years, and a sex discrimination suit in federal court, to get her job as a coal miner. But, finally, the Rushton Mining Company had hired McCusker and two other women as deep miners. "When the mine roof over her head collapsed, Marilyn McCusker became, at age 35, the first woman to die working inside a deep mine in the United States. "WE DIG COAL: A PORTRAIT OF THREE WOMEN is a powerful documentary about McCusker and her co-workers Bernice Dombroski and Mary Louise Carson. It is about their struggle to be hired, about their day-to-day lives in the mines, about the economic necessity that first drove them to seek work in the mines, about the community hostility they faced, and about the death of Marilyn McCusker, coal miner."--1982 Peabody Awards entry form.
- Broadcast Date
- 1982
- Asset type
- Program
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Credits
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Producing Organization: WETA-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.)
Producing Organization: State of the Art, Inc.
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the
University of Georgia
Identifier: cpb-aacip-91e5e398b4d (Filename)
Format: U-matic
Duration: 0:58:50
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- Citations
- Chicago: “We Dig Coal: A Portrait of Three Women,” 1982, The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed May 4, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-526-v69862cp3v.
- MLA: “We Dig Coal: A Portrait of Three Women.” 1982. The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. May 4, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-526-v69862cp3v>.
- APA: We Dig Coal: A Portrait of Three Women. Boston, MA: The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-526-v69862cp3v