Coal, Class, and Color
Author | : Joe William Trotter |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780252061196 |
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Author | : Joe William Trotter |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780252061196 |
Author | : Joe William Trotter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : African American coal miners |
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Author | : Eugene Robinson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Robinson, an editor with the Washington Post, compares race relations and racial identity in the United States and Brazil.
Author | : J. William Fell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Deborah R. Weiner |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2023-02-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0252054946 |
The stories of vibrant eastern European Jewish communities in the Appalachian coalfields Coalfield Jews explores the intersection of two simultaneous historic events: central Appalachia’s transformative coal boom (1880s-1920), and the mass migration of eastern European Jews to America. Traveling to southern West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, and southwestern Virginia to investigate the coal boom’s opportunities, some Jewish immigrants found success as retailers and established numerous small but flourishing Jewish communities. Deborah R. Weiner’s Coalfield Jews provides the first extended study of Jews in Appalachia, exploring where they settled, how they made their place within a surprisingly receptive dominant culture, how they competed with coal company stores, interacted with their non-Jewish neighbors, and maintained a strong Jewish identity deep in the heart of the Appalachian mountains. To tell this story, Weiner draws on a wide range of primary sources in social, cultural, religious, labor, economic, and regional history. She also includes moving personal statements, from oral histories as well as archival sources, to create a holistic portrayal of Jewish life that will challenge commonly held views of Appalachia as well as the American Jewish experience.
Author | : Nicholas P Cheremisinoff |
Publisher | : William Andrew |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2012-07-10 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1437778151 |
Clean Electricity Through Advanced Coal Technologies focuses on the environmental damages caused by power plant operations and the environmental issues with solid waste, air and impoundment issues such as the massive TVA spill in Kingston, TN.
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Total Pages | : 664 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Dyes and dyeing |
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Author | : Reniqua Allen |
Publisher | : Bold Type Books |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2019-01-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 156858587X |
Young Black Americans have been trying to realize the promise of the American Dream for centuries and coping with the reality of its limitations for just as long. Now, a new generation is pursuing success, happiness, and freedom -- on their own terms. In It Was All a Dream, Reniqua Allen tells the stories of Black millennials searching for a better future in spite of racist policies that have closed off traditional versions of success. Many watched their parents and grandparents play by the rules, only to sink deeper and deeper into debt. They witnessed their elders fight to escape cycles of oppression for more promising prospects, largely to no avail. Today, in this post-Obama era, they face a critical turning point. Interweaving her own experience with those of young Black Americans in cities and towns from New York to Los Angeles and Bluefield, West Virginia to Chicago, Allen shares surprising stories of hope and ingenuity. Instead of accepting downward mobility, Black millennials are flipping the script and rejecting White America's standards. Whether it means moving away from cities and heading South, hustling in the entertainment industry, challenging ideas about gender and sexuality, or building activist networks, they are determined to forge their own path. Compassionate and deeply reported, It Was All a Dream is a celebration of a generation's doggedness against all odds, as they fight for a country in which their dreams can become a reality.
Author | : Stephen M. Timko |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Coal |
ISBN | : 9781582483733 |
Author | : Robert H. Woodrum |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780820328799 |
In 1930 almost 13,000 African Americans worked in the coal mines around Birmingham, Alabama. They made up 53 percent of the mining workforce and some 60 percent of their union's local membership. At the close of the twentieth century, only about 15 percent of Birmingham's miners were black, and the entire mining workforce had been sharply reduced. Robert H. Woodrum offers a challenging interpretation of why this dramatic decline occurred and why it happened during an era of strong union presence in the Alabama coalfields. Drawing on union, company, and government records as well as interviews with coal miners, Woodrum examines the complex connections between racial ideology and technological and economic change. Extending the chronological scope of previous studies of race, work, and unionization in the Birmingham coalfields, Woodrum covers the New Deal, World War II, the postwar era, the 1970s expansion of coalfield employment, and contemporary trends toward globalization. The United Mine Workers of America's efforts to bridge the color line in places like Birmingham should not be underestimated, says Woodrum. Facing pressure from the wider world of segregationist Alabama, however, union leadership ultimately backed off the UMWA's historic commitment to the rights of its black members. Woodrum discusses the role of state UMWA president William Mitch in this process and describes Birmingham's unique economic circumstances as an essentially Rust Belt city within the burgeoning Sun Belt South. This is a nuanced exploration of how, despite their central role in bringing the UMWA back to Alabama in the early 1930s, black miners remained vulnerable to the economic and technological changes that transformed the coal industry after World War II.