Coal, Class, and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915-32
By (author): "Joe William Trotter Jr."
Publish Date:
September 1st 1990
ISBN0252061195
ISBN139780252061196
AsinCoal, Class, and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915-32
Original titleCoal, Class, and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915-32
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