When Our People CallAn Essay explaining the improtance our belonging...Storming Heaven...Denise Giardina
...l tactics used by the coal companies to take the land for their own greedy purposes. He becomes a martyr in his fight for vengeance and the liberation of “his people”, when he is killed in a shootout between coal company police and the sheriff and miners of the town. His people were any and everyone that opposed the tyrannical coal company. When he became Major of Justice County, his people were the people of Justice. His life would be intertwined with that of Rondall Lloyd’s, who was one of C.J.’s people from the day Lloyd was born. Rondall Lloyd was born into the world of coal mining and enters the mines with his father at an early age. With the help and encouragement of Marcum, Rondall made a decision, on his future and he learned exactly who his people were in an argument with Marcum about weather Rondall should be a doctor or work in the mines to help bring in the union. “Ain’t no doctor gonna bring in no union…”, and with that Rondall leaves to join the fight against the operators and eventually become a union organizer. He found that his people were the miners, the scruffy, worked to death miners. Carrie Bishop was a nurse who go...