Appalachia in the Sixties: Decade of Reawakening
David S. Walls & John B. Stephenson, editors
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KENTUCKY, 1972
Contents
- Preface xi
Part One: The Early Sixties
- RECOGNITION AGAIN
- The Lost Appalachians, Harry W. Ernst & Charles H. Drake 3
- In Hazard, Dan Wakefield 25
- The Latest Rediscovery of Appalachia, Robert Munn 25
- DECLARATIONS OF WAR & FORECASTS OF VICTORY
- No More Pork Barrel: The Appalachia Approach, Jerald Ter Horst 31
- How Much Better Will the Better World Be? Rupert B. Vance 38
Part Two: Between a Rock & a Hard Place
- THE QUALITY OF LIFE: HARD TIMES IN GOD’S COUNTRY
- Life in Appalachia – The Case of Hugh McCaslin, Robert Coles 47
- Kennedy Hears of Need, T .N. Bethell, Pat Gish, & Tom Gish 62
- THE POLITICS OF COAL
- East Kentucky Coal Makes Profits for Owners, Not Region, James C. Millstone 69
- Conspiracy in Coal, T. N. Bethell
- The Scandal of Death & Injury in the Mines, Ben A. Franklin 92
- ENVIRONMENTAL PILLAGE
- The Logical Thing, Costwise, Calvin Trillin 109
- Hot Time Ahead, T. N. Bethell 116
- Strip Mining in Eastern Kentucky, David B. Brooks 119
- MIGRATION: TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT
- A Look at the 1970 Census, James S. Brown 130
- The Uptown Story, Bill Montgomery 144
- The Family Behind the Migrant, James S. Brown 153
Part Three: Lessons in Fighting Poverty
- ORGANIZING AT THE GRASSROOTS
- A Rope to Jump, a Well to Dig, Thomas Parrish 161
- Fair Elections in West Virginia, K. W. Lee 164
- On the Outside Lookin’ In, Jeanne M. Rasmussen 176
- LOCAL REACTIONS: OUTSIDE AGITATORS, SUBVERSIVES, & OTHER HELPING HANDS
- Kentucky’s Coal Beds of Sedition, Paul Good 184
- A Stranger with a Camera, Calvin Trillin 193
- Catalyst of the Black Lung Movement, K. W. Lee 201
- Romantic Appalachia, Don West 210
Part Four: Can We Get There From Here?
- EDUCATION & YOUTH
- The School & Politics, Peter Schrag, 219
- The Crisis of Appalachian Youth, James Branscome 224
- INTO THE 1970S
- A Bold Idea for a New Appalachia, John Fetterman 232
- Nationalizing Our Resources, Philip Young 238
- Jaded Old Land of Bright New Promise, Harry Caudill 240
- Toward a People’s ARC, Robb Burlage 246
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES 259
