During the COVID-19 pandemic, compelled by the loss of some sister miners and the illness of others, Kipp Dawson and her colleagues began organizing lists of women coal miners. They reached out to historian Dr. Jessie Wilkerson to discuss ways to preserve their stories, as all of them had been involved in the United Mine Workers of America and the Coal Employment Project, a non-profit organization that advocated for women’s entrance into industrial mines, fought the discrimination and harassment that working women encountered, and organized around working-class women’s issues. Their conversations gave rise to the Women Miners Oral History Project (WMOHP) at West Virginia University. Historian Dr. Jessie Ramey recorded 35 interviews with Dawson for the WMOHP, which also contains life histories of a dozen other women miners captured by Wilkerson and her students. The interview segments included here represent Dawson’s engagement with the long freedom movement across a wide range of issues, starting in the 1960s.