Blacks in Appalachia

Although southern Appalachia is popularly seen as a purely white enclave, blacks have lived in the region from early times. Some hollows and coal camps are in fact almost exclusively black settlements. The selected readings in this new book offer the first comprehensive presentation of the black experience in Appalachia.Organized topically, the selections deal with the early history of blacks in the region, with studies of the black communities, with relations between blacks and whites, with blacks in coal mining, and with political issues. Also included are a section on oral accounts of black.

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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; List of Abbreviations; Part One. Basic Approaches; 1. Black Invisibility and Racism in Appalachia: An Informal Survey; 2. Between Berea (1904) and Birmingham (1908): The Rock and Hard Place for Blacks in Appalachia; Part Two. Historical Perspectives; 3. Red and Black in the Southern Appalachians; 4. Freedom and Slavery in Appalachian America; 5. Boyhood Days; 6. The Black South and White Appalachia; Part Three. Community Studies; 7. The Negro Miner in West Virginia.

8. The Black Community in a Company Town: Alcoa, Tennessee, 1919-19399. Class over Caste: Interracial Solidarity in the Company Town; Part Four. Race Relations; 10. A Judicious Mixture: Negroes and Immigrants in the West Virginia Mines, 1880-1917; 11. The Sociohistorical Roots of White/ Black Inequality in Urban Appalachia: Knoxville and East Tennessee; Part Five. Black Coal Miners; 12. The Black Worker; 13. The Coal Mines; 14. Race and the United Mine Workers' Union in Tennessee: Selected Letters of William R. Riley, 1892-1895.

15. The Collapse of Biracial Unionism: The Alabama Coal Strike of 1908Part Six. Blacks and Local Politics; …