Description As a Black Appalachian woman, Memphis Tennessee Garrison belonged to a demographic category triply ignored by historians.
Lynda Ann Ewen is a professor of sociology at Marshall University, where she directs the Oral HiStory of Appalachia Program and is co-director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia..
About the Author Ancella Bickley is a retired professor of English and Vice President for Academic Affairs at West Virginia State College.
She portrays a courageous people who organize to improve their working conditions, send their children to school and then to college, own land, and support a wide range of cultural and political activities.
In many ways, this oral history, based on interview transcripts, is the untold and multidimensional Story of African American life in West Virginia, as seen through the eyes of a Remarkable woman.
Steel, and vice president of the National Board of the NAACP at the height of the civil rights struggle (1963-66), was involved with all of these struggles.
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Memphis Tennessee Garrison, an innovative teacher, administrative worker at U.
These miners and their families created communities that became the centers of the struggle for unions, better education, and expanded civil rights.
As Garrison makes clear, the backbone of the early mining work force-those who laid the railroad tracks, manned the coke ovens, and dug the coal-were Black miners.
The coalfields of Mc Dowell County were among the richest seams in the nation.
The daughter of former slaves, she moved to Mc Dowell County, West Virginia, at an early age and died at ninety-eight in Huntington.
Description As a Black Appalachian woman, Memphis Tennessee Garrison belonged to a demographic category triply ignored by historians
