African American Miners and Migrants: THE EASTERN KENTUCKY SOCIAL CLUB

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Thomas E. Wagner and Phillip J. Obermiller’s African American Miners and Migrants documents the lives of Eastern Kentucky Social Club (EKSC) members, a bunch of black Appalachians who left the eastern Kentucky coalfields and their coal company hometowns in Harlan County. _x000B__x000B_Bound in combination by segregation, the inherent dangers of mining, and coal company paternalism, it would seem that black miners and mountaineers would be eager to disregard their past. As a substitute, members of the EKSC have chosen to celebrate their Harlan County roots. African American Miners and Migrants uses historical and archival research and extensive personal interviews to explore their reasons and the binds that also bind them to eastern Kentucky. The book also examines life within the model coal towns of Benham and Lynch within the context of Progressive Era policies, the practice of welfare capitalism, and the recent national trend of creating corporate towns and planned communities.

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