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Memphis Tennessee Garrison: The Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman

Memphis Tennessee Garrison: The Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman

Garrison, Memphis Tennessee

Hardcover

Series: Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia

Biographies GeneralSocial Movements

ISBN10: 0821413732
ISBN13: 9780821413739
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: Jun 30 2001
Pages: 282
Weight: 1.34
Height: 0.95 Width: 6.38 Depth: 9.28
Language: English

As a black Appalachian woman, Memphis Tennessee Garrison belonged to a demographic category triply ignored by historians.

The daughter of former slaves, she moved to McDowell County, West Virginia, at an early age and died at ninety-eight in Huntington. The coalfields of McDowell County were among the richest seams in the nation. As Garrison makes clear, the backbone of the early mining work force-those who laid the railroad tracks, manned the coke ovens, and dug the coal-were black miners. These miners and their families created communities that became the centers of the struggle for unions, better education, and expanded civil rights. Memphis Tennessee Garrison, an innovative teacher, administrative worker at U.S. Steel, and vice president of the National Board of the NAACP at the height of the civil rights struggle (1963-66), was involved with all of these struggles.

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