Biography
Florence Reece was an American social activist, poet and folksong writer. She was born on 12 April 1900 in Sharps Chapel, Tennessee, and died on 3 August 1986 in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Reece wrote the labour song "Which Side Are You On?" in 1931 during the Harlan County War strike, in which her husband Sam Reece was a union organiser. She appeared as Self in the 1976 documentary film Harlan County U.S.A., singing the song.
