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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The research behind
Black Huntington is impressive. . . . [It] tells an important story. " --
Journal of Appalachian Studies"An unprecedented depiction of black life in a city of northern Appalachia." --
Journal of American History"This most welcome study provides great insights into the urban experience of Affrilachians. It is highly recommended for collections in African American studies, Appalachian studies, civil rights, and urban studies. . . . Highly recommended." --
Choice"A well-written account that documents an area often overlooked in studies of slavery, Reconstruction, and the struggle for racial equality." --
Journal of Southern History"Fain has given us a deeply researched and well-written account of Black life in urban Appalachia.
Black Huntington is an essential 'Appalachian story' and is recommended for scholars of race, labor, and civil rights in the U.S. South." --
Register of the Kentucky Historical Society"This book not only broadens our understanding of the process of modernization in Appalachia by bringing black Appalachians onto the historical stage, it also casts light on the experience of development in Appalachia's urban places and demonstrates how an essentially rural people shaped their own meaningful communities in a new environment of both opportunity and repression."--Ronald D. Eller, author of
Uneven Ground: Appalachia since 1945
