An Appalachian reawakening : West Virginia and the perils of the new machine age, 1945-1972 /

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Thomas, Jerry Bruce, 1941- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2010.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:West Virginia and Appalachia ; 12.
Temas:
1900-1999
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  • Front Cover
  • West Virginia and Appalachia Series Page
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • A New Machine Age in the Hills
  • Appalachian Contradiction
  • A Revolution in Coal
  • The UMWA Embraces the Revolution
  • The Fade of the Mountain Farm
  • A General Economic Decline
  • West Virginians and the Mass Culture of the Age
  • The Great Migration: Leaving “Those Hills, the Place I Call Homeâ€?
  • Conclusion
  • American Paradox, Appalachian Stereotype
  • The Alienation of the Land
  • Horse-and-Buggy Vestiges
  • The Patteson EraMcCarthyism: The Second Red Scare
  • “Like a Bolt of Lightningâ€?: Marlandâ€?s Severance Tax Proposal
  • Hard Times and the Search for Panaceas
  • Marland: Flawed Champion of Change
  • The Emergence of Cecil Underwood
  • The Challenges of Education in the Age of Sputnik
  • A Changing of the Guard
  • A Deteriorating Economy and Agonizing Reappraisals
  • “An American Paradoxâ€?: Imperfections in the Glare of National Attention
  • Planning for Regional Action
  • Affection in Adversity
  • Conclusion
  • Civil Rights in the New Machine Age
  • African Americans in West Virginia: Balancing Two Segregationist PartiesJim Crow and the Impact of the Revolution in Coal
  • Desegregating the Schools: The Impact of Brown
  • A Rehearsal for Desegregation
  • Persistent Segregation
  • Integrating Higher Education
  • Integrating the Broader Society: A Grassroots Awakening
  • Churches and Civil Rights
  • Conclusion
  • Good Intentions: The New Frontier and the War on Poverty
  • Structural Unemployment, Automation, and the Culture of Poverty
  • The View from Megalopolis
  • A “Robber Barronâ€? of the New Frontier
  • The Centennial: Accentuating the PositiveLBJ and the War on Poverty
  • Hulett C. Smithâ€?s Sin of Omission
  • Challenges of “Creative Federalismâ€?
  • Disappointments of the Crash Program
  • From Head Start to VISTA
  • Charleston as Prototype: Community Action and “Maximum Feasible Participationâ€?
  • Hardy and McDowell: Appalachian Models for the War on Poverty
  • Reaction in West Virginia
  • Guns Over Butter: OEO in Retreat
  • Reorganizing the State OEO
  • “Rethinking OEOâ€?s Approachâ€?: Assessing McDowell and Kanawha
  • The ARC: A Lost Opportunity?
  • ConclusionRaising Hell in the Hillsand Hollows: AVs, VISTAs, and Community Action
  • Huey Perry and the Mingo Model for “Maximum Feasible Participationâ€?
  • The Rise of the Appalachian Volunteers
  • AVs in West Virginia: “Outsiders and Trouble Makersâ€? or “the Best Hope for Changeâ€??
  • Rising Militancy in Appalachia
  • AVs Under Attack
  • Governor Smith Closes Ranks with the Critics
  • Assessing AVs and VISTAs
  • West Virginiaâ€?s War on Poverty in Retrospect
  • From the Silver Bridge to Farmington and Rumblings at the Grassroots

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