Aunt Molly Jackson

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(1880 – September 1, 1960) was an influential American folk singer and a union activist. Her full name was Mary Magdalene Garland Stewart Jackson Stamos. She was discovered in November 1931 by the Dreiser Committee, investigating mining conditions in Harlan County when she spoke and sang her song "Ragged, Hungry Blues" in front of the committee. In December 1931, Jackson traveled to New York City to support and raise money for striking Harlan coal miners against tobacco. She made her recording debut on December 10, 1931. For the next year, she performed in various cities in the north. She stayed in New York for much of that decade and was a part of the Greenwich Village folk revival, singing for Alan Lomax at the Library of Congress, and influencing folk singers from Woody Guthrie to Pete Seeger. In the mid 1930s, she performed in New York City together with Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Earl Robinson, Will Geer, her half-brother Jim Garland, and her half-sister Sarah Ogan Gunning.After a bus accident in Ohio, leaving her badly crippled, Jackson became incapacitated and was confined to her New York apartment.She died in 1960 and was interred at the Odd Fellows Lawn Cemetery in under Mary Stamos next to her husband, Gust StamosSacramento, California. The given dates of Aunt Molly Jackson's life are mostly uncertain since she was very flexible when giving them. Folklorist Archie Green became very frustrated during interviews with her, due to her "elastic responses", inconsiste

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The Little Red Box of Protest Songs

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The Songs and Stories of Aunt Molly Jackson

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Power To The People - Protest Songs

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Flowers In The Wildwood

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The Little Red Box of Protest Songs - We Shall Be Free

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Country Girls - The Early Years

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American Music 1

The Storyteller (Remastered)

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Music Of Coal: Mining Songs From The Applachian Coalfields

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