Black Appalachia

Cicero M. Fain III is an author, editor, and fourth-generation Black Huntingtonian. A recipient of the Carter G. Woodson Fellowship from Marshall University, Fain has authored several articles in peer-reviewed journals, including "Buffalo Soldier, Deserter, Criminal: The Remarkably Complicated Life of Charles Ringo." His first book, Black Huntington: An Appalachian Story, was a finalist for the Appalachian Studies Association Weatherford Award and won the West Virginia Library Association’s Literary Merit Award. Sheena Harris Hayes is an editor, researcher, and associate professor of African American history at Auburn University. Her article, "A Woman’s Work: The Story of Cornelia Bowen and Mt. Meigs, Alabama," won the Griot Golden Pen Award for best article by the Griot scholarly journal. Hayes is also a contributor to several peer-reviewed volumes, such as Alabama Women: Their Lives and Times, which received the Alabama Historical Association’s James F. Sulzby Award for excellence in scholarship on Alabaman history. Hayes’s works also include Margaret Murray Washington: The Life and Times of a Career Clubwoman and editorial contributions for "The Black Soldiers in the War and Society" series at the University of Virginia. Wilburn Hayden Jr. is professor emeritus and senior scholar at York University, Toronto. Hayden served as the first African American president of the Appalachian Studies Association and has been active in social work academic leadership for more than four decades. He is the author of Appalachian Black People: Identity, Location and Racial Barriers. William H. Turner is a sociologist who was born in the heart of the Appalachian coalfields in Harlan County, Kentucky. He is the author of The Harlan Renaissance: Stories of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns, which earned a Weatherford Award in Nonfiction and a Kentucky Historical Society Governor’s Award. Turner is also the coeditor of Blacks in Appalachia and a guest editor for a special issue of Blacks in Appalachia, published by Berea College’s American Heritage, a magazine of Southern Appalachian Life & Culture. Ronald D Eller is former director of the Appalachian Center and professor of history at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers: Industrialization of the Appalachian South, 1880–1930.

• Appalachian African American_x000D_Foreword_x000D_Preface_x000D_Writing Black Life in Mountains_x000D_Part 1_x000D_I Pledge Allegiance to Affrilachia_x000D_The Affrilachian Writers_x000D_Part 2_x000D_Living in the Black Appalachian Shadow Community_x000D_The First Drag Queen was a Black Appalachian_x000D_Between Corbin and Lynch_x000D_Stories of The Bottom_x000D_Blues Music_x000D_The Making of a Black Appalachian Oral History_x000D_(Re)Locating Sites of Memory in Appalachia Through Black Spaces and Stories_x000D_Part 3_x000D_Remaking the Schoolhouse_x000D_Freedman Daniel Richmond and His Encounter After the Civil War_x000D_"Harnessing Press Coverage," from Carter G. Woodson_x000D_A Performance of Impossibilities_x000D_Part 4_x000D_Social Equality and the Spirit of Devilry_x000D_Convict Labor in Central Appalachia_x000D_The NAACP and the Desegregation of Schools in West Virginia_x000D_Racial Segregation in West Virginia Housing, 1929-1971_x000D_Beyond the Company Town_x000D_Part 5_x000D_Them Black Patent Leather Shoes_x000D_Lessons from the Edge of Appalachia_x000D_Black Joy_x000D_"Appalachian Ghost" and "Gauley Mountain Computer Work"_x000D_I, Too, Am an Appalachian_x000D_Black Appalachia in Images_x000D_Looking for Ghosts_x000D_Appalachian Chitlins (chitterlings)_x000D_Appalachia and the Emmanuel Nine Massacre at Mother Emanuel AME Church_x000D_Index_x000D_About the Contributors_x000D_Acknowledgments_x000D_The Crisis in Harlan