Solidarity: Amazon Army Mural
BEYOND THE WALL
A closer look.
Details to notice. Connections to explore.
Women and labor history
The mural depicts women who marched in support of southeast Kansas coal miners.
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Kansas Murals directory record Based on the directory’s recorded details.A patron saint
Saint Barbara, associated with coal miners, appears in the composition.
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Kansas Murals directory record Based on the directory’s recorded details.The artist behind it
The directory credits Wayne Wildcat for Solidarity: Amazon Army Mural.
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Kansas Murals directory record Based on the directory’s recorded details.Its Kansas setting
This mural is recorded at 308 N Walnut St, Pittsburg, KS, USA.
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Kansas Murals directory record Based on the directory’s recorded details.
Description
Located inside the Pittsburg Public Library, this 10'x12' mural features St. Barbara, the patron saint of coal miners, and a number of the wives, mothers and grandmothers of miners who organized marches on coal mines throughout Southeast Kansas, protesting working conditions. Called the “Army of Amazons” by the New York Times, their efforts essentially shutdown some of the largest coal fields in the world at the time and even forced the Governor of Kansas to temporarily move his offices to Pittsburg's historic Hotel Stilwell. To learn more about the Amazon Army and the women that led them, be sure to visit other Crawford County attractions, including the Miners Hall Museum in Franklin, the Miners Memorial, located at 2nd and Pine in Pittsburg or the Crawford County Historical Museum, just west of Pittsburg on US-69. This mural was commissioned by the Pittsburg Area Arts and Crafts Association and the Pittsburg Arts Council, and was painted by Wayne Wildcat.
