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Memphis Tennessee Garrison: The Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman
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Overview
The daughter of former slaves, she moved to McDowell County, West Virginia, at an early age and died at ninety-eight in Huntington. The coalfields of McDowell County were among the richest seams in the nation. 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. These miners and their families created communities that became the centers of the struggle for unions, better education, and expanded civil rights. Memphis Tennessee Garrison, an innovative teacher, administrative worker at U.S. 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.
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. 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.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780821413739 |
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Publisher: | Ohio University Press |
Publication date: | 06/30/2001 |
Series: | Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia |
Edition description: | 1 |
Pages: | 282 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d) |
About the Author
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.
Table of Contents
Illustrations | vii | |
Preface | ix | |
Introduction | xiii | |
Note on the Editing | xxxiii | |
I | Family History | 1 |
Chapter 1 | Remembrances of Slavery | 5 |
Chapter 2 | Origins | 14 |
II | Family and Youth | 17 |
Chapter 3 | My Mother | 21 |
Chapter 4 | My Husband | 28 |
Chapter 5 | The Family Land | 32 |
Chapter 6 | Schooldays | 35 |
III | Working Life | 43 |
Chapter 7 | Teaching | 49 |
Chapter 8 | Participation in Teachers' Organizations | 66 |
Chapter 9 | Beyond Teaching | 71 |
IV | Life in the Coalfields | 83 |
Chapter 10 | The Coalfields | 90 |
Chapter 11 | Racial Separation in the Coalfields | 95 |
Chapter 12 | Churches in the Coalfields | 99 |
Chapter 13 | U.S. Steel | 104 |
Chapter 14 | Miners and Unions | 107 |
Chapter 15 | Labor Relations | 119 |
V | Political Life | 125 |
Chapter 16 | Politics | 131 |
Chapter 17 | The Depression | 138 |
Chapter 18 | Association with the Republican Party | 141 |
Chapter 19 | The Negro Artists' Series | 146 |
Chapter 20 | Public Executions | 155 |
Chapter 21 | Finding the NAACP | 158 |
Chapter 22 | Local NAACP Activities | 161 |
Chapter 23 | NAACP Christmas Seals | 168 |
Chapter 24 | State and National NAACP Activities | 174 |
Chapter 25 | Problems of Integration in West Virginia | 185 |
VI | Community Life | 189 |
Chapter 26 | Girl Scouts | 193 |
Chapter 27 | Books for Africa | 198 |
Chapter 28 | Awards | 201 |
VII | Conclusion | 205 |
Chapter 29 | Epilogue | 207 |
Chapter 30 | Commentary | 212 |
Memphis Tennessee Garrison and West Virginia's African American Experience: Historical Afterword | 215 | |
Notes | 229 | |
Sources | 237 | |
Index | 241 |