Black Coal Miners in America
Black Coal Miners in America

Author: Ronald L. Lewis

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 1987-01-01

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 9780813116105

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From the early day of mining in colonial Virginia and Maryland up to the time of World War II, blacks were an important part of the labor force in the coal industry. Yet in this, as in other enterprises, their role has heretofore been largely ignored. Now Roland L. Lewis redresses the balance in this comprehensive history of black coal miners in America. The experience of blacks in the industry has varied widely over time and by region, and the approach of this study is therefore more comparative than chronological. Its aim is to define the patterns of race relations that prevailed among the m.

Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers
Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers

Author: Ronald D. Eller

Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9780870493416

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"As a benchmark book should, this one will stimulate the imagination and industry of future researchers as well as wrapping up the results of the last two decades of research... Eller's greatest achievement results from his successful fusion of scholarly virtues with literary ones. The book is comprehensive, but not overlong. It is readable but not superficial. The reader who reads only one book in a lifetime on Appalachia cannot do better than to choose this one... No one will be able to ignore it except those who refuse to confront the uncomfortable truths about American society and culture that Appalachia's history conveys." -- John A. Williams, Appalachian Journal.