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Bud Benson was one of the hundreds of African Americans recruited from Alabama to work in the eastern Kentucky coal mines. He was also a baseball player and manager of the coal company's colored baseball team. The Lynch Grays were the best colored baseball team in Kentucky in 1935.
“Benson, William, Sr."Bud",” Notable Kentucky African Americans Database.
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2-14-2019
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2014av024: [Two of the miners taken at the Headhouse, Balkan, Kentucky, original], James Walters photograph collection on Balkan, 1910-2012, undated, University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.
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