Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 208-212.

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).