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Author Trotter, Joe William, 1945- author.

Title African American workers and the Appalachian coal industry / Joe William Trotter Jr
Edition First edition
Published Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 157 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Introduction : the Black miner in U.S. labor history -- African Americans in West Virginia -- Migration to southern West Virginia -- Inequality in the workplace -- Community formation -- Environmental conditions -- Epilogue : comparative race and ethinic relations
Summary This collection brings together nearly three decades of research on the African American experience, class, and race relations in the Appalachian coal industry
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject African American coal miners -- United States -- History -- 20th century
African Americans -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- History -- 20th century
African Americans -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- History -- 19th century
Coal mines and mining -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- History
Electronic books.
e-books.
Social conditions
Race relations
Coal mines and mining
African Americans
African American coal miners
SUBJECT Appalachian Region, Southern -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
Appalachian Region, Southern -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Appalachian Region, Southern -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Appalachian Region, Southern -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Subject Southern Appalachian Region
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1952271193
9781952271199