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African American and Cherokee Nurses in Appalachia by Phoebe Ann Pollitt
ISBN: 9780786479658

Publication Date: 2016-03-01

Focusing on the careers and contributions of dozens of African American and Eastern Band Cherokee registered nurses, this first comprehensive study of minority nurses in Appalachia documents the quality of health care for minorities in the region during the Jim Crow era. Racial segregation in health care and education and state and federal policies affecting health care for Native Americans are examined in depth.
African American Workers and the Appalachian Coal Industry by Joe William Trotter
Call Number: HD 8039 .M62 U67 2022

ISBN: 9781952271182

Publication Date: 2022-02-28

This collection brings together nearly three decades of research on the African American experience, class, and race relations in the Appalachian coal industry. It shows how, with deep roots in the antebellum era of chattel slavery, West Virginia's Black working class gradually picked up steam during the emancipation years following the Civil War and dramatically expanded during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. From there, African American Workers and the Appalachian Coal Industry highlights the decline of the region's Black industrial proletariat under the impact of rapid technological, social, and political changes following World War II. It underscores how all miners suffered unemployment and outmigration from the region as global transformations took their toll on the coal industry, but emphasizes the disproportionately painful impact of declining bituminous coal production on African American workers, their families, and their communities. Joe Trotter not only reiterates the contributions of proletarianization to our knowledge of US labor and working-class history but also draws attention to the gender limits of studies of Black life that focus on class formation, while calling for new transnational perspectives on the subject. Equally important, this volume illuminates the intellectual journey of a noted labor historian with deep family roots in the southern Appalachian coalfields.
Creatures in the Mist: Little People, Wild Men and Spirit Beings around the World -- A Study in Comparative Mythology Gary R. Varner by Gary R. Varner
ISBN: 9780875865478

Publication Date: 2006-12-01

Varner brings together a medley of stories, myths, and folklore, sharing a fascination and respect for humankind's early and contemporary cultures and wondering at similarities across the board. Here, he focuses on "Little People" and giants, animals and were-creatures, and the odd, helpful or threatening ways imputed to our earthly companions including dogs and cats, bats and spiders, and the stories people have told each other about them since time immemorial.
A Graveyard Preservation Primer (American Association for State and Local History) by Lynette Strangstad
ISBN: 9780759122437

Publication Date: 2013-01-01

Lynette Strangstad, trained through the National Trust for Historic Preservation's Restoration Workshop, has specialized in graveyard preservation since 1980. She has served as conservator, burial ground consultant, preservation planner, and speaker at sites throughout the United States and is nationally known for her work in burial ground preservation.
The Latino Migration Experience in North Carolina: New Roots in the Old North State by Hannah Gill
Publication Date: 2010
Nantahala River: A History & Guide by Lance Holland
Call Number: E-book

ISBN: 1439670773

Publication Date: 2020

Most everyone who comes to western North Carolina has heard of the Nantahala, but few know its history. Long before it was a mecca for rafters and thrill seekers, it was traveled by naturalists and explorers from William Bartram to John C. Frémont. After the Cherokees were driven out, settlers arrived and began exporting the wealth of the mountains in the form of timber, talc and minerals. Tourists arrived on the Western Turnpike soon after, and the railroad brought more around 1890. The federal government began purchasing land for the new Nantahala National Forest, and the need for aluminum to fight World War II precipitated the construction of Fontana Lake and Nantahala Lake. Local author Lance Holland has crafted an enlightening and entertaining narrative history of this unique region.
North Carolina Women : Their Lives and Times by Michele Gillespie (Editor)
ISBN: 9780820347561

Publication Date: 2015-07-01

North Carolina has had more than its share of accomplished, influential women―women who have expanded their sphere of influence or broken through barriers that had long defined and circumscribed their lives, women such as Elizabeth Maxwell Steele, the widow and tavern owner who supported the American Revolution; Harriet Jacobs, runaway slave, abolitionist, and author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; and Edith Vanderbilt and Katharine Smith Reynolds, elite women who promoted women’s equality.
A Very Mutinous People: The Struggle for North Carolina, 1660-1713 by Noeleen McIlvenna
ISBN: 9780807887912

Publication Date: 2009-06-01

Making their way through the Great Dismal Swamp, runaway servants from Virginia joined other renegades to establish a free society along the most inaccessible Atlantic coastline of North America. They created a new community on the banks of Albemarle Sound, maintaining peace with neighboring Native Americans, upholding the egalitarian values of the English Revolution and ignoring the laws of the mother country.
The Waterman's Song: Slavery and Freedom in Maritime North Carolina by David S. Cecelski
ISBN: 9780807849729

Publication Date: 2001-10-01

Black maritime laborers played an essential role in local abolitionist activity, slave insurrections and other antislavery activism. They also boatlifted thousands of slaves to freedom during the Civil War. [publisher's description]

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