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A field guide to the unique ecosystems and mountain trails in Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee.
One of the Forbes 400 wealthiest Americans, former CEO Clayton tells his story, from being born to poor cotton farmers in west Tennessee to building Clayton Homes into one of the top distributors and loaners in the mobile home industry.
Rare glimpses into the hardscrabble lives of rural Southern women and a model for oral history practice.
""It was hard times," French Carpenter Clark recalls, a sentiment unanimously echoed by the sixteen other women who talk about their lives in Country Women Cope with Hard Times. Born between 1890 and 1940 in eastern Tennessee and western South Carolina, these women grew up on fa…
Rare glimpses into the hardscrabble lives of rural Southern women and a model for oral history practice.
"Memphis in 1968 was ruled by a paternalistic "plantation mentality" embodied in its good-old-boy mayor, Henry Loeb. Wretched conditions, abusive white supervisors, poor education, and low wages locked most black workers into poverty. Then two sanitation workers, seeking shelter…