Hawks Nest: Holocaust in the Hills of West Virginia in Bloomington, MN

During the Great Depression, Union Carbide constructed a tunnel on the New River in WV. In the process an unknown number of men died. Because they were mostly poor, itinerant, Negroes without advocates, their plight was largely ignored. No one knows how many died and the government was of little help. There were a few whose lives rose above their circumstances. This is the story of one of those couples.