Fighting mountaineers : the struggle for justice in the Appalachians / Edwin D. Hoffman.
Relates how seven historical episodes which demonstrates how the struggle for justice has been a part of the heritage of the people of Appalachia.
Record details
- ISBN: 0395285836
- Physical Description: vi, 216 pages : map ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1979.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes index. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Bibliography: pages 208-212. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The Appalachian mountaineers -- Roots too deep: How a portion of the Cherokee Nation resisted forced emigration west to keep living in their Carolina mountains (1838-1839) -- "Heroes of America": How members of a secret society in the Virginia Highlands sought a Union victory during the Civil War (1863-1864) -- The zebras must go: How the coal miners of east Tennessee rid themselves of the competition of convict labor in the turbulent eighteen-nineties (1891-1892) -- Miners at war: How the coal miners of Paint Creek and Cabin Creek defied the West Virginia coal barons in a bloody struggle for unionization (1912-1913) -- Refusal to salute: How Jehovah's Witness children contested the flag-saluting rule of the West Virginia schools during the Second World War (1942-1943) -- Strippers, no!: How citizens of the eastern Kentucky coal fields resisted the depredations of the strip miners in the protest-filled sixties (1965) -- Women in charge: How women strikers in northwest Georgia overcame defeat by forming a factory of their own (1966-1975). |
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Subject: | Labor disputes > Appalachian Region > History > Juvenile literature. Social conflict > Juvenile literature. Appalachian Region > Social conditions > Juvenile literature. |
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