Kathleen Mickells

Biography:

Kathleen Mickells is an American oil refinery worker coal miner and activist with the Socialist Workers Party. Mickells was born in Omaha Nebraska and worked at the Cumberland Mine in Greene County Pennsylvania before being laid off in 1987. In 1986 she led a delegation of American women coal miners to tour coal fields in the United Kingdom. In that same year Mickells attended the International Miners Organisation meeting also in the United Kingdom.