Title African American miners and migrants : the Eastern Kentucky Social Club / Thomas E. Wagner and Phillip J. Obermiller ; afterword by William H. Turner.

Publication Info.	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2004]
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Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-153) and index.
Contents	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
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language	English.
Subject	Eastern Kentucky Social Club -- Biography.
	Eastern Kentucky Social Club.
Genre/Form	Biographies.
Subject	African Americans -- Societies, etc.
	African Americans -- Societies, etc.
	African Americans -- Interviews.
	African Americans.
Genre/Form	Interviews.
Subject	African American coal miners -- Kentucky -- Social life and customs.
	African American coal miners.
	Kentucky.
	Manners and customs.
	Mining camps -- Kentucky -- History.
	Mining camps.
	History.
	Rural-urban migration -- United States.
	Rural-urban migration.
	United States.
	Kentucky -- Social life and customs.
	Mountain life -- Kentucky.
	Mountain life.
	Benham (Ky.) -- Biography.
	Lynch (Ky.) -- Biography.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
	Biographies.
	Interviews.
Added Author	Obermiller, Phillip J.
Other Form:	Print version: African American miners and migrants 0252028961 (acid-free paper) (DLC) 2003012089
ISBN	9780252092732 epub
	0252092732
	0252028961 acid-free paper
	0252071646 paperback : acid-free paper
	9780252071645
	9780252028960

Title African American miners and migrants : the Eastern Kentucky Social Club / Thomas E. Wagner and Phillip J. Obermiller ; afterword by William H. Turner.

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