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050 0 4 _aHD8039
_b.B533 1987
049 _aNTA
100 1 _aLewis, Ronald L.,
_d1940-
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245 1 0 _aBlack Coal Miners in America
_bRace, Class, and Community Conflict, 1780-1980.
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260 _aLexington :
_bThe University Press of Kentucky,
_c(c)1987.
300 _a1 online resource (264 pages)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aDescription based upon print version of record.
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505 0 0 _aCover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Preface; Part I: Expropriation: Forced Labor; 1. Slavery; 2. Convict Labor; Part II: Exploitation: The South; 3. The Social Equality Wedge in Alabama, 1880-1908; 4. Resurgence of the UMWA in Alabama, 1920-1940; Part III: Exclusion: The North; 5. Job Control and Racial Conflict in the North and West, 1870-1903; 6. Race, Class, Community, and the UMWA in the North; Photographs; Part IV: Equality: Central Appalachia; 7. Judicious Mixture in Central Appalachia, 1880-1920; 8. The Fruits of Judicious Mixture, 1910-1932
505 0 0 _aPart V: Elimination: An Epilogue9. Demise of the Black Miner; Appendix: Employment of Blacks in the Bituminous Coal Industry, 1900-1980; Notes; Primary Sources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
520 0 _aFrom the early day of mining in colonial Virginia and Maryland up to the time of World War II, blacks were an important part of the labor force in the coal industry. Yet in this, as in other enterprises, their role has heretofore been largely ignored. Now Roland L. Lewis redresses the balance in this comprehensive history of black coal miners in America. The experience of blacks in the industry has varied widely over time and by region, and the approach of this study is therefore more comparative than chronological. Its aim is to define the patterns of race relations that prevailed among the m.
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650 0 _aAfrican American coal miners
_xHistory.
650 0 _aCoal mines and mining
_xHistory.
655 1 _aElectronic Books.
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_bCynthia Snell
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_dCynthia Snell