The March of the Amazon Army
Thursday, March 11, 2010
The Emporia branch of the American Association of University Women, the Emporia State University Department of Social Sciences, and the Kansas Humanities Council Speakers’ Bureau will host The March of the Amazon Army, a presentation by Linda O’Nelio Knoll, on Thursday, March 25.
Knoll is an educator, author, and historian who has researched the local history of southeast Kansas. Her presentation explores the unusual event in 1921 when thousands of women related to striking coal miners in the Little Balkans marched in protest against unfair labor practices in the local coal mines. The women, mostly immigrants from southeast Europe, were effective and halted work in the mines for three days. The womens march made headlines across the nation, and the New York Times christened them the Amazon Army.
The presentation, which is free and open to the public, will be at 7 p.m. in room 72 of the Science Hall on the Emporia State University campus.
For more information, contact Ellen Hansen, ESU social sciences department chair, at 620-341-5576, or ehansen@emporia.edu.