Biography
Aunt Molly Jackson was a midwife, balladeer and National Miners' Union activist of the Straight Creek section of Bell County, Kentucky, whose songs of the coal wars made her a famous voice of the Harlan miners. Jailed during the 1931–32 Kentucky coal strike, she and her family were driven out of the state; her brothers were also arrested and hunted in the criminal-syndicalism drive.
Page 5’s Rose Baron account credits her with a defense ballad during the 1931 Harlan miners’ strike and describes ILD relief for prisoners and families. It adds contemporary cultural-defense context; it does not give a new personal arrest or an additional measured term for Jackson. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1935/v12-n156-NAT-jul-01-1935-DW-Q.pdf
