An Appalachian reawakening : West Virginia and the perils of the new machine age, 1945-1972 / / Jerry Bruce Thomas

• Autore: Thomas Jerry Bruce <1941->
• Pubblicazione: Morgantown, W. Va., : West Virginia University Press, 2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: x, 470 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 975.4/043
• Soggetto topico: Social change - West Virginia - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: West Virginia History 20th century; West Virginia Social conditions 20th century; West Virginia Politics and government 20th century; West Virginia Economic conditions 20th century
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 422-442) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover -- West Virginia and Appalachia Series Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A New Machine Age in the Hills -- Appalachian Contradiction -- A Revolution in Coal -- The UMWA Embraces the Revolution -- The Fade of the Mountain Farm -- A General Economic Decline -- West Virginians and the Mass Culture of the Age -- The Great Migration: Leaving "Those Hills, the Place I Call Home" -- Conclusion -- American Paradox, Appalachian Stereotype -- The Alienation of the Land -- Horse-and-Buggy Vestiges -- The Patteson Era -- McCarthyism: The Second Red Scare -- "Like a Bolt of Lightning": Marland's Severance Tax Proposal -- Hard Times and the Search for Panaceas -- Marland: Flawed Champion of Change -- The Emergence of Cecil Underwood -- The Challenges of Education in the Age of Sputnik -- A Changing of the Guard -- A Deteriorating Economy and Agonizing Reappraisals -- "An American Paradox": Imperfections in the Glare of National Attention -- Planning for Regional Action -- Affection in Adversity -- Conclusion -- Civil Rights in the New Machine Age -- African Americans in West Virginia: Balancing Two Segregationist Parties -- Jim Crow and the Impact of the Revolution in Coal -- Desegregating the Schools: The Impact of Brown -- A Rehearsal for Desegregation -- Persistent Segregation -- Integrating Higher Education -- Integrating the Broader Society: A Grassroots Awakening -- Churches and Civil Rights -- Conclusion -- Good Intentions: The New Frontier and the War on Poverty -- Structural Unemployment, Automation, and the Culture of Poverty -- The View from Megalopolis -- A "Robber Barron" of the New Frontier -- The Centennial: Accentuating the Positive -- LBJ and the War on Poverty -- Hulett C. Smith's Sin of Omission -- Challenges of "Creative Federalism" -- Disappointments of the Crash Program. ; From Head Start to VISTA -- Charleston as Prototype: Community Action and "Maximum Feasible Participation" -- Hardy and McDowell: Appalachian Models for the War on Poverty -- Reaction in West Virginia -- Guns Over Butter: OEO in Retreat -- Reorganizing the State OEO -- "Rethinking OEO's Approach": Assessing McDowell and Kanawha -- The ARC: A Lost Opportunity? -- Conclusion -- Raising Hell in the Hillsand Hollows: AVs, VISTAs, and Community Action -- Huey Perry and the Mingo Model for "Maximum Feasible Participation" -- The Rise of the Appalachian Volunteers -- AVs in West Virginia: "Outsiders and Trouble Makers" or "the Best Hope for Change"? -- Rising Militancy in Appalachia -- AVs Under Attack -- Governor Smith Closes Ranks with the Critics -- Assessing AVs and VISTAs -- West Virginia's War on Poverty in Retrospect -- From the Silver Bridge to Farmington and Rumblings at the Grassroots -- Prelude: The Silver Bridge -- A Shaken Political Structure -- The Fair Elections Movement -- The King and Kennedy Assassinations -- A Long Hot Summer -- "The Lord Voted for Us": The 1968 Election -- Campus Activism -- John L.'s Broken Dream -- "78-4": Hominy Falls and Farmington -- Black Lung: "The Road to a Dusty Death" -- Organizing the Black Lung Coalition -- Conclusion -- An Appalachian Reawakening: The Black Lung Association, Miners for Democracy, and the New Feminism -- "How Not to Do It": The Waning of the Poverty War -- "A Divine Right to Breathe": The Miners' Revolt of 1969 -- "I Want You All to Keep the Fight Up": Murder and Reform in the UMWA -- West Virginia Women and the New Feminism -- Arch Moore: "An Egocentric Style of Government" -- Conclusion -- The Strip Mining Dilemma and a Climactic Debate -- Early Strip Mining -- Strip Mining's Economic Advantages and Environmental Challenges -- State Regulatory Efforts -- The Battle to Abolish Strip Mining. ; The Fight for a Federal Ban -- The Stanford Report: Environmental Devastation or Economic Disaster -- The Election of 1972: A Strip-Mining Referendum? -- Conclusion -- Buffalo Creek: Appalachian Apotheosis -- Gob Piles and the Environment -- The Dams of Buffalo Creek Hollow -- The Dam Break -- The Aftermath: A Familiar Script -- An Act of God? -- Kai Erikson and the Persisting Stereotype -- Preventing Another Buffalo Creek? -- Epilogue: Another Reawakening? -- Notes -- Introduction -- A New Machine Age in the Hills -- American Paradox, Appalachian Stereotype -- Civil Rights in the New Machine Age -- Good Intentions -- Raising Hell in the Hills and Hollows -- From the Silver Bridge to Farmington -- An Appalachian Reawakening -- The Strip Mining Dilemma and a Climactic Debate -- Buffalo Creek -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Manuscript Collections -- Oral History -- Newspapers and Periodicals -- Printed Documents, Government Publications -- Books -- Articles, Lectures -- Unpublished Dissertations and Theses -- Electronic Sources -- Sound Recordings -- Video Recordings -- Index -- Back Cover.
• Sommario/riassunto: As the long boom of post-World War II economic expansion spread across the globe, dreams of white picket fences, democratic ideals, and endless opportunities flourished within the United States. Middle America experienced a period of affluent stability built upon a modern age of industrialization. Yet for the people of Appalachia, this new era brought economic, social, and environmental devastation, preventing many from realizing the American Dream. Some families suffered in silence; some joined a mass exodus from the mountains; while others, trapped by unemployment, poverty, illness, and injury became dependent upon welfare. As the one state most completely Appalachian, West Virginia symbolized the region's dilemma, even as it provided much of the labor and natural resources that fueled the nation's prosperity. "An Appalachian Reawakening: West Virginia and the Perils of the New Machine Age, 1945-1972" recounts the difficulties the state of West Virginia faced during the post-World War II period. While documenting this turmoil, this valuable analysis also traces the efforts of the New Frontier and Great Society programs, which stimulated maximum feasible participation and lead to the ultimate rise of grass roots activities and organizations that improved life and labor in the region and undermined the notion of Appalachian fatalism.
• Titolo autorizzato: An Appalachian reawakening
• ISBN: 1-933202-59-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910969586103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: West Virginia and Appalachia ; ; 12.