Topics discussed in this interview with Kate Bradley and J.W. Bradley include: birth in Petros, Tenn.; life history overview; coal mining father; history of Save Our Cumberland Mountains (SOCM); women’s role in SOCM; relationship of Vanderbilt University medical students; Student Health Coalition in 1969; Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA); coal mining in Tennessee; foodways; fundraising; community organizing in Petros, Tenn.; fighting for land from the Southern Railroad and Agriculture Extension Office; personal conflict with individuals in the community; rummage sales; John Gaventa, Irwin Venick, Sue Colby, Maureen O’Connell, Daniel Ford Thomas, Bill Dow; involvement in local church; Briceville clinic; letter from Jimmy Carter; Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977; PTA; education inequality; Miles Horton from the Highlander Research and Education Center; Oak Ridge and City Behind the Fence; bake sales and quilt raffles; burning of the Petros school; involvement in Brushy Mountain prison; scare tactics and intimidation from coal companies; Catholic doctor named David Stanley; close relationship with prisoners of Brushy Mountain Prison; taking care of aging parents; work as President of the Unicorn Fund; strip mining in Frozen Head Park; children and activism; Coal Creek War; fighting McCoys.
Interview with Kate Bradley and J.W. Bradley by Evangeline Mee, 29 May 2012 U-0803, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.