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Memphis Tennessee Garrison
Memphis Tennessee Garrison
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Description for Memphis Tennessee Garrison
Paperback. A history of Memphis Tennessee Garrison, a teacher, worker at US Steel, and vice-president of the National Board of the NAACP at the height of the civil rights struggle (1963-66). Based on interview transcripts, it is the story of African-American life in a West Virginia company town. Series: Series in Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia. Num Pages: 282 pages, photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBFW; 3JJ; BG; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 585. Weight in Grams: 463.
As a black Appalachian woman, Memphis Tennessee Garrison belonged to a demographic category triply ignored by historians.
The daughter of former slaves, she moved to McDowell County, West Virginia, at an early age and died at ninety-eight in Huntington. The coalfields of McDowell County were among the richest seams in the nation. As Garrison makes clear, the backbone of the early mining work force—those who laid the railroad tracks, manned the coke ovens, and dug the coal—were black miners. These miners and their families created communities that became the centers of the struggle for unions, better education, and expanded ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
Series
Series in Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Athens, United States
ISBN
9780821413746
SKU
V9780821413746
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About Memphis Tennessee Garrison
Ancella Bickley is a retired professor of English and Vice President for Academic Affairs at West Virginia State College. Lynda Ann Ewen is a professor of sociology at Marshall University, where she directs the Oral History of Appalachia Program and is co-director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia.
Reviews for Memphis Tennessee Garrison
“One of the first books to show how Appalachian blacks—like those in the Cotton Belt South and the Northern migrants—successfully pitted their intellect against historical realities and contradiction, and won!” “Anecdotally rich. Memphis Tennessee Garrison: The Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman fills the gap in historical accounts of mining. Of particular interest is her work on the NAACP ... Read more