Thomas E., PH.D. Wagner Phillip J. Obermiller William H. Turner
The history of the Eastern Kentucky Social Club's past and present bring the hidden aspects of Appalachian history and culture to life. Thomas E. Wagner and Phillip J. Obermiller's African American Miners and Migrants documents the lives of Eastern Kentucky Social Club (EKSC) members, a group of black Appalachians who left the eastern Kentucky coalfields and their coal company hometowns in Harlan County. Bound together by segregation, the inherent dangers of mining, and coal company paternalism, it might seem that black miners and mountaineers would be eager to forget their past. Instead,...
The history of the Eastern Kentucky Social Club's past and present bring the hidden aspects of Appalachian history and culture to life. Thomas E. Wagn...
One of the greatest internal migrations in American history has been the movement of the people of Appalachia to a variety of rural and urban destinations all over the country --- wherever economic opportunity beckoned, from the industrial Midwest to the timber empires of the Pacific Northwest. This movement (about five million in the 1950s alone) has taken place in several waves throughout the twentieth century, and continues to this day. "Appalachian Odyssey" provides an interdisciplinary exploration of the impact of this phenomenon on both the Appalachian region and the country as a...
One of the greatest internal migrations in American history has been the movement of the people of Appalachia to a variety of rural and urban desti...
