Priscilla Long

{{short description|American writer and political activist}}

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| known_for = Where the Sun Never Shines: A History of America's Bloody Coal Industry

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Priscilla Long (born 1943) is an American writer, poet, and political activist. She co-founded a Boston consciousness raising group that contributed to Bread and Roses. A longtime anti-war activist,

Long was arrested in the 1963 Gwynn Oak Park sit-in.{{cite book|editor-last=Love|editor-first=Barbara J.|chapter=Long, Priscilla|title=Feminists Who Changed America, 1963–1975|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kpNarH7t9CkC&pg=PA284|year=2006|publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=978-0-252-03189-2|page=284}}

Works

  • The New Left: A Collection of Essays, as editor (1969, Porter Sargent){{r|Love2006}}{{Cite journal |last1=Crownfield |first1=David |title=The New Left and the Counter-Culture |journal=The North American Review |volume=255 |issue=3 |pages=70–76 |date=1970 |issn=0029-2397 |jstor=25117125 |df=mdy-all }}
  • Where the Sun Never Shines: A History of America's Bloody Coal Industry (1989, Paragon House){{r|Love2006}}{{Cite journal |last1=Fishback |first1=Price V. |title=Review of Where the Sun Never Shines: A History of America's Bloody Coal Industry. |journal=The Journal of Economic History |volume=51 |issue=4 |pages=991–992 |date=1991 |doi=10.1017/S0022050700040420 |issn=0022-0507 |jstor=2123424 |s2cid=154659545 |df=mdy-all }}{{Cite journal |last1=French |first1=Michael |title=Review of Where the Sun Never Shines: A History of America's Bloody Coal Industry |journal=History |volume=76 |issue=248 |pages=448–449 |date=1991 |issn=0018-2648 |jstor=24421401 |df=mdy-all }}{{Cite journal |last1=Reagan |first1=Patrick D. |title=Review of Where the Sun Never Shines: A History of America's Bloody Coal Industry |journal=The Historian |volume=53 |issue=2 |pages=373–374 |date=1991 |issn=0018-2370 |jstor=24447916 |df=mdy-all }}
  • "We Called Ourselves Sisters" in The Feminist Memoir Project (1998, Three Rivers Press){{r|Love2006}}
  • "Dancing with the Muse in Old Age" (2022, Epicenter Press)
  • "Holy Magic" (2020, MoonBath Press)
  • "Fire and Stone: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?" (2016, University of Georgia Press)
  • "Minding the Muse: A Handbook for Painters, Composers, Writers, and Other Creators" (2016 ,Coffeetown Press)

References

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