Talented actress Loretta Williams reenacts Mother Jones at events sponsored by the Mother Jones Museum and Union Miners Cemetery in Mt. Olive as well as by the Illinois Coal Museum in Gillespie, and at many downstate events. She also portrayed Mother Jones at the recent centennial celebration of the Battle of Blair Mountain in West Virginia. Here are some of Loretta’s wonderful performances as Mother Jones:

CLICK (fight like hell – standing alongside James Alderson as General Bradley)

CLICK (where Mother Jones was originally buried in Union Miners Cemetery)

CLICK (show the world what the laborers can do)

CLICK (May Day 2024 at Union Miners Cemetery – they fought and died for fair wages)

CLICK (the mine owners are murderers – September 3, 2019 – at Union Miners Cemetery)

CLICK (FB: wages aren’t going to keep pace – recorded by Robin Soehnlin)

CLICK (compilation including with visitors of the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum and in Cork)

And watch this fascinating presentation by Ms. Williams in which she explains how she embodies Mother Jones: CLICK