PITTSBURG, Kan. — In December 1921, thousands of local women, the wives and family members of area coal miners, became known as the “Amazon Army” for their protests against what they felt were unfair labor practices in the local coal mines. This week, Miners Hall Museum in Franklin announced it was recently awarded $1,000 from Humanities Kansas, a nonprofit that partners with a wide range of organizations in communities statewide to assist with a variety of projects, to support the museum’s Amazon Army Centennial Speaker Series. “Humanities Kansas supports projects that explore stories unique to our state," the group’s executive director, Julie Mulvihill, said in a press release.