Coal, Class, and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915-32

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

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  Coal, Class, and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915-32

  • 1990
  • 290 pages
  • Paperback
  • University of Illinois Press