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Joe Nathan Cleckly, Jr., Tiffani Daniels, Kelli Johnson

Oral Histories – NPS AACR Civil Rights In Appalachia Grant

Tiffani Daniels, and Dr. Kelli Johnson conducting an oral history interview with Joe Cleckly, Jr..

This oral history is part of the National Park Service African Americans Civil Rights History and Appalachia Grant Program.

Christine Yolanda Rush, Jamila Jones, Kelli Johnson

Oral Histories – NPS AACR Civil Rights In Appalachia Grant

Jamilla Jones and Dr. Kelli Johnson conducting an oral history interview with Christina Yolanda Rush.

This oral history is part of the National Park Service African Americans Civil Rights History and Appalachia Grant Program.

Sharmein Denise Sloan, Jamila Jones, Kelli Johnson

Oral Histories – NPS AACR Civil Rights In Appalachia Grant

This is Jamila Jones and Dr. Kelli Johnson and we are conducting an oral history interview with Sharmein Sloan.

And this is a part of the National Park Service African Americans Civil Rights History and Appalachia Grant Program.

Review Of African American Workers And The Appalachian Coal Industry, By Joe William Trotter, Jr., Cicero Fain

History Faculty Research

Joe William Trotter, Jr., ranks among the pantheon of America's most influential historians. For more than forty years, beginning with his 1985 work Black Milwaukee: The Making of an Industrial Proletariat, 1915–1945, he has chronicled the African American experience, most profoundly on the centrality of the Black working class to America's economic, industrial, cultural, and political development. His pioneering and provocative work examining the intersections of race, class, labor, urbanization, and gender within diverse urban- and rural-industrial settings has challenged prevailing historiography and expanded our understanding of Black migration, labor relations, and community formation. It has also added important …

Professor Philip W. Carter, Jr., Kelli Johnson

Publications

Professor Philip W. Carter, Jr., MSW, is a professor of Social Work and an academic activist with over 40 years at Marshall University and a total of 50 years of teaching, administering, and training in higher education. Professor Carter has taught and developed coursework in the areas of Appalachian social welfare, and legislation and has a 60-year legacy of social justice work. This advocacy began as a basketball player at Marshall where he was simultaneously a spokesperson for the student-led Civic Interest Progressives (CIP). The CIP was responsible for desegregation in public accommodation, the establishment of human rights commissions, and …