Kalamazoo Kate

This book, part 1 of 2 is written on a well-documented true story involving copper mining, strikes and those who have advocated, marched, been beaten and imprisoned fighting for the common man, the blue-collar worker seeking things important to them and to their families, things such as food, income, health care, a roof over their heads, yes, those things we often take for granted. This book focuses on copper mining in the upper peninsula of Michigan, which was the site of the first copper mines and, one of the first and largest of the Union Mine strikes.
The protagonist was real and many of the folks that she learned about advocacy, such as Mother Jones, were very real people. The events are documented. The people involved, their families, their subsistence living were real. The history of the Calumet and Hecla Mine strike has been well studied. It is just a small portion of the fight for the workers and those they slaved and, sometimes died, to furnish a bare living for real people. It is historical history so some of the names "have been changed give my protagonist a life of her own with events slightly altered but still real?