African American miners and migrants : the Eastern Kentucky Social Club /
Thomas E. Wagner and Phillip J. Obermiller ; afterword by William H. Turner.
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2004.
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Coming Up on the Rough Side of the Mountain: African Americans and Coal Camps in Appalachia -- 2. Life for Me Ain't Been No Crystal Stair: African Americans in Coal Towns -- 3. I Don't Know Where To, but We're Moving: African American Survival Strategies in Coal Towns -- 4. Sing a Song of 'Welfare': Corporate Communities and Welfare Capitalism in Southeastern Kentucky -- 5. Living Tolerably Well Together: Life in Model Towns along Looney Creek 6. What Kept You Standing, Why Didn't You Fall?: African Americans in Benham and Lynch7. One Close Community: The Eastern Kentucky Social Club -- 8. They Love Coming Home: Appalachian Ties That Bind -- Afterword: Values, Spoken and Unspoken -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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Eastern Kentucky Social Club--Biography.
African Americans--Societies, etc. African Americans--Interviews. African American coal miners--Social life and customs.--Kentucky Mining camps--History.--Kentucky Rural-urban migration--United States. Mountain life--Kentucky.