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The Harlan renaissance : stories of Black life in Appalachian coal towns /

William Turner's memoir focusing on Black life in the coal company towns in and around Harlan County, Kentucky during coal's postwar boom years.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Turner, William Hobart (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, [2021]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Turner, William Hobart.
Turner, William Hobart > Family.
African Americans > Appalachian Region > History > 20th century.
Children of coal miners > Kentucky > Lynch > Biography.
Appalachian Region > History.
Appalachian Region > Race relations.
Appalachian Region > Social conditions.
Harlan County (Ky.) > Social life and customs.
Lynch (Ky.) > Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • Alex Haley-The Taproot
  • Between Alex Haley, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ed Cabbell, and the Affrilachian Poets
  • Black Mountain Mantrips and Woman Trips
  • What's in a Name?
  • Black Folk Done Lost Their Stuff
  • The Common Narrative of Black Appalachian Coal-Camp Families
  • Blacks Moving between Central Alabama and Central Appalachia
  • Close-Knit Central Appalachian Coal Camp Black Communities
  • On Trash-Talking and Signifying along Looney Creek
  • In a Coal Mine, Everybody Is Black; Outside, Not So Much
  • School Integration Was Worse than a Kick in the Head by an Alabama Mule
  • The Principal of the White School Became a Lifelong Friend
  • Not Bad for Some Colored Kids from Harlan County, Kentucky
  • King Coal Leaves the Throne
  • The Graying of the Eastern Kentucky Social Club
  • Meditating on the Future at the Mountaintop.