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Title Blacks in Appalachia / edited by William H. Turner and Edward J. Cabbell ; foreword by Nell Irvin Painter
Published Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©1985

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 277 pages)
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; List of Abbreviations; Part One. Basic Approaches; 1. Black Invisibility and Racism in Appalachia: An Informal Survey; 2. Between Berea (1904) and Birmingham (1908): The Rock and Hard Place for Blacks in Appalachia; Part Two. Historical Perspectives; 3. Red and Black in the Southern Appalachians; 4. Freedom and Slavery in Appalachian America; 5. Boyhood Days; 6. The Black South and White Appalachia; Part Three. Community Studies; 7. The Negro Miner in West Virginia
8. The Black Community in a Company Town: Alcoa, Tennessee, 1919-19399. Class over Caste: Interracial Solidarity in the Company Town; Part Four. Race Relations; 10. A Judicious Mixture: Negroes and Immigrants in the West Virginia Mines, 1880-1917; 11. The Sociohistorical Roots of White/ Black Inequality in Urban Appalachia: Knoxville and East Tennessee; Part Five. Black Coal Miners; 12. The Black Worker; 13. The Coal Mines; 14. Race and the United Mine Workers' Union in Tennessee: Selected Letters of William R. Riley, 1892-1895
15. The Collapse of Biracial Unionism: The Alabama Coal Strike of 1908Part Six. Blacks and Local Politics; 16. The Vanishing Appalachian: How to ""Whiten"" the Problem; 17. Not Just Whites in Appalachia; Part Seven. Personal Anecdotal Accounts of Black Life; 18. Conversations with the ""Ole Man"": The Life and Times of a Black Appalachian Coal Miner; 19. The Mountain Negro of Hazard, Kentucky; 20. ""If I Could Go Back ... "": An Interview with Dobbie Sanders; Part Eight. Selected Demographic Aspects; 21. The Demography of Black Appalachia: Past and Present; Selected Bibliography; Resource Guide
Summary Blacks in Applalachia focuses needed attetnion on a neglected area of Appalachian studies. Contains a range of contributers such as Carter Woodson and W.E.B. DuBois
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-274)
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Subject African Americans -- Appalachian Region -- History
African Americans
Race relations
Geschichte
Aufsatzsammlung
SUBJECT Appalachian Region -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85006074
Appalachian Region -- Race relations
Subject Appalachian Region
Appalachen -- Süd
Schwärze
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Turner, William Hobart.
Cabbell, Edward J., 1946-
ISBN 9780813150451
0813150450