To live here, you have to fight : how women led Appalachian movements for social justice /

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"When Lyndon B. Johnson declared a War on Poverty in 1964, the coalfields of the Appalachian South was one of the frontlines: unemployment was high, development had been hampered by the single-industry economy, and natural and man-made disasters were common. Neither Johnson nor his policy offic...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wilkerson, Jessica, 1981- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urban, Chicago : University of Illinois Press, [2019]
Series:Working class in American history.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Women > Political activity > Appalachian Region, Southern.
Social action > Appalachian Region, Southern.
Femmes > Activité politique > Appalaches (Sud)
Action sociale > Appalaches (Sud)
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Reference
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations
Social action
Social conditions
Women > Political activity
Appalachian Region, Southern > Social conditions > 20th century.
Appalaches (Sud) > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
Southern Appalachian Region
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The political and gender economy of the Mountain South, 1900-1964
  • "I was always interested in people's welfare" : bringing the war on poverty to Kentucky
  • "In the eyes of the poor, the Black, the youth" : poverty politics in Appalachia
  • March for survival : the Appalachian welfare rights movement
  • "The best care in history" : interdependence and the community health movement
  • "I'm fighting for my own children that I'm raising up" : women, labor, and protest in Harlan County
  • "Nothing worse than being poor and a woman" : feminism in the Mountain South.

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