To live here, you have to fight : how women led Appalachian movements for social justice /
"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...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Urban, Chicago :
University of Illinois Press,
[2019]
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Series: | Working class in American history.
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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.