Jackson, Aunt Molly (1880–1 September 1961), folksinger and union activist, was born Mary Magdalene Garland in Clay County, Kentucky, the daughter of Oliver Peoria Garland, a farmer and Baptist preacher, and Deborah Robinson. When Molly was three, her father moved the family to nearby Laurel County to run a grocery store in the mining camp there. When the store failed, he tried sharecropping before going down into the mines himself. He became an organizer for the United Mine Workers of America, preaching Sunday sermons commingling the Christian gospel with union activism, and he taught his daughter to always stand up for the oppressed. From age five, Molly was standing alongside him on picket lines....
