Priscilla Long

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Priscilla Long
Born1943 (1943)
OccupationWriter
Known forWhere the Sun Never Shines: A History of America's Bloody Coal Industry

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. [1]

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