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Appalachia in the Sixties Decade of Reawakening.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, (c)1972.Description: 1 online resource (278 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813150413
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HC107 .A673 1972
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Contents:
The Case of Hugh McCaslin; Kennedy Hears of Need; The Politics of Coal; East Kentucky Coal Makes Profits for Owners, Not Region; Conspiracy in Coal; The Scandal of Death and Injury in the Mines.
Subject: In The Southern Appalachian Region: A Survey, published by the University Press of Kentucky in 1962, Rupert Vance suggested a decennial review of the region's progress. No systematic study comparable to that made at the beginning of the decade is available to answer the question of how far Appalachia has come since then, but David S. Walls and John B. Stephenson have assembled a broad range of firsthand reports which together convey the story of Appalachia in the sixties. These observations of journalists, field workers, local residents, and social scientists have been gathered from a variety.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Part One: The Early Sixties; Recognition Again; The Lost Appalachians; In Hazard; The Latest Rediscovery of Appalachia; Declarations of War and Forecasts of Victory; No More Pork Barrel: The Appalachia Approach; How Much Better Will the Better World Be?; Part Two: Between a Rock and a Hard Place; The Quality of Life: Hard Times in God's Country; Life in Appalachia -- The Case of Hugh McCaslin; Kennedy Hears of Need; The Politics of Coal; East Kentucky Coal Makes Profits for Owners, Not Region; Conspiracy in Coal; The Scandal of Death and Injury in the Mines.

Environmental PillageThe Logical Thing, Costwise; Hot Time Ahead; Strip Mining in East Kentucky; Migration: Take It or Leave It; A Look at the 1970 Census; The Uptown Story; The Family behind the Migrant; Part Three: Lessons in Fighting Poverty; Organizing at the Grassroots; A Rope to Jump, a Well to Dig; Fair Elections in West Virginia; On the Outside Lookin' In; Local Reactions: Outside Agitators, Subversives, and Other Helping Hands; Kentucky's Coal Beds of Sedition; A Stranger with a Camera; Catalyst of the Black Lung Movement; Romantic Appalachia; Part Four: Can We Get There from Here?

Education and YouthThe School and Politics; The Crisis of Appalachian Youth; Into the 1970s; A Bold Idea for a New Appalachia; Nationalizing Our Resources; Jaded Old Land of Bright New Promise; Toward a People's ARC; Biographical Notes.

In The Southern Appalachian Region: A Survey, published by the University Press of Kentucky in 1962, Rupert Vance suggested a decennial review of the region's progress. No systematic study comparable to that made at the beginning of the decade is available to answer the question of how far Appalachia has come since then, but David S. Walls and John B. Stephenson have assembled a broad range of firsthand reports which together convey the story of Appalachia in the sixties. These observations of journalists, field workers, local residents, and social scientists have been gathered from a variety.

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