Appalachia in the Sixties (WEB PDF) von David S. Walls

Part One: The Early Sixties

Recognition Again
1. "The Lost Appalachians" by Harry W. Ernst & Charles H. Drake
2. "In Hazard" by Dan Wakefield
3. "The Latest Rediscovery of Appalachia" by Robert F. Munn

Declarations of War & Forecasts of Victory
4. "Pork Barrel: The Appalachia Approach" by Jerald Ter Horst
5. "How Much Better Will the Better World Be?" by Rupert B. Vance

Part Two: Between a Rock & a Hard Place

The Quality of Life: Hard Times in God's Country
6. "Life in Appalachia—The Case of Hugh McCaslin" by Robert Coles
7. "Kennedy Hears of Need" by T. N. Bethell, Pat Gish, & Tom Gish

The Politics of Coal
8. "East Kentucky Coal Makes Profits for Owners, Not Region" by James C. Millstone
9. "Conspiracy in Coal" by T. N. Bethell
10. "The Scandal of Death & Injury in the Mines" by Ben A. Franklin

Environmental Pillage
11. "The Logical Thing, Costwise" by Calvin Trillin
12. "Hot Time Ahead" by T. N. Bethell
13. "Strip Mining in East Kentucky" by David B. Brooks

Migration: Take It or Leave It
14. "A Look at the 1970 Census" by James S. Brown
15. "The Uptown Story" by Bill Montgomery
16. "The Family behind the Migrant" by James S. Brown

Part Three: Lessons in Fighting Poverty

Organizing at the Grassroots
17. "A Rope to Jump, a Well to Dig" by Thomas Parrish
18. "Fair Elections in West Virginia" by K. W. Lee
19. "On the Outside Lookin' In" by Jeanne M. Rasmussen

Local Reactions: Outside Agitators, Subversives, & Other Helping Hands
20. "Kentucky's Coal Beds of Sedition" by Paul Good
21. "A Stranger with a Camera" by Calvin Trillin
22. "Catalyst of the Black Lung Movement" by K. W. Lee
23. "Romantic Appalachia" by Don West

Part Four: Can We Get There from Here?

Education & Youth
24. "The School & Politics" by Peter Schrag
25. "The Crisis of Appalachian Youth" by James Branscome

Into the 1970s
26. "A Bold Idea for a New Appalachia" by John Fetterman
27. "Nationalizing Our Resources" by Philip Young
28. "Jaded Old Land of Bright New Promise" by Harry M. Caudill
29. "Toward a People's ARC" by Robb Burlage

Biographical Notes