04750nam 2200841Ia 450 991095921720332120200520144314.097866139216049781283609159128360915097802520927320252092732(CKB)2670000000242451(EBL)3414110(SSID)ssj0000710969(PQKBManifestationID)11413236(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000710969(PQKBWorkID)10681459(PQKB)11397777(OCoLC)1086968631(OCoLC)815477950(OCoLC)923495735(OCoLC)961605596(OCoLC)962595370(OCoLC)975689448(OCoLC)1017610677(OCoLC)1018010927(OCoLC)1037934046(OCoLC)1038635574(OCoLC)1045536300(OCoLC)1058182960(OCoLC)1065917025(OCoLC)1076721431(OCoLC)1081204902(OCoLC)on1086968631(MdBmJHUP)muse23909(Au-PeEL)EBL3414110(CaPaEBR)ebr10603905(CaONFJC)MIL392160(OCoLC)923495735(MiAaPQ)EBC3414110(Perlego)2382221(EXLCZ)99267000000024245120030528d2004 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAfrican American miners and migrants the Eastern Kentucky Social Club /Thomas E. Wagner and Phillip J. Obermiller ; afterword by William H. Turner1st ed.Urbana University of Illinois Pressc20041 online resource (175 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9780252028960 0252028961 9780252071645 0252071646 Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-153) 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 Lynch""""7. ""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""Thomas E. Wagner and Phillip J. Obermiller's African American Miners and Migrants documents the lives of Eastern Kentucky Social Club (EKSC) members, a group of black Appalachians who left the eastern Kentucky coalfields and their coal company hometowns in Harlan County. Bound together by segregation, the inherent dangers of mining, and coal company paternalism, it might seem that black miners and mountaineers would be eager to forget their past. Instead, members of the EKSC have chosen to celebrate their Harlan County roots. African American Miners and Migrants uses historical and archival research and extensive personal interviews to explore their reasons and the ties that still bind them to eastern Kentucky. The book also examines life in the model coal towns of Benham and Lynch in the context of Progressive Era policies, the practice of welfare capitalism, and the contemporary national trend of building corporate towns and planned communities. African AmericansSocieties, etcAfrican AmericansInterviewsAfrican American coal minersKentuckySocial life and customsMining campsKentuckyHistoryRural-urban migrationUnited StatesMountain lifeKentuckyKentuckySocial life and customsBenham (Ky.)BiographyLynch (Ky.)BiographyAfrican AmericansSocieties, etc.African AmericansAfrican American coal minersSocial life and customs.Mining campsHistory.Rural-urban migrationMountain life305.896/0730769154Wagner Thomas E1809628Obermiller Phillip J1173488MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910959217203321African American miners and migrants4360523UNINA