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West Virginia:Coal Mining

 

Coal, Class, and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915-1932

Author:   Joe William Trotter, Jr.

Title:    Coal, Class, and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915-1932

:   Paperback, 290 pages.
Book Condition:   New
Publisher:    University of Illinois Press

:   286

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How were southern blacks transformed from rural agricultural workers into members of the industrial working class? Joe Williams Trotter, Jr., examines the unique experiences of black coal miners in southern West Virginia between World War I and the Great Depression, showing how the subtle interplay of race, class, and region altered black people's personal and collective existence.

Trotter's extensive use of state and national archival materials and records of the United Mine Workers of America help the reader to better appreciate the changing milieu in which the black miners operated. Interviews conducted with twenty-nine surviving miners and miners' family members offer a human dimension to the extensive data about life in the West Virginia coalfields

University of Illinois Press

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