To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice by Wilkerson, Jessica
To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice by Wilkerson, Jessica

To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice

Launched in 1964, the War on Poverty quickly took aim at the coalfields of southern Appalachia. There,...
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Author: Jessica Wilkerson
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To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice by Wilkerson, Jessica

To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice

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To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice by Wilkerson, Jessica

To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice

$100.23
Author: Jessica Wilkerson
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Launched in 1964, the War on Poverty quickly took aim at the coalfields of southern Appalachia. There, the federal government found unexpected allies among working-class white women devoted to a local tradition of citizen caregiving and seasoned by decades of activism and community service.

Jessica Wilkerson tells their stories within the larger drama of efforts to enact change in the 1960s and 1970s. She shows white Appalachian women acting as leaders and soldiers in a grassroots war on poverty--shaping and sustaining programs, engaging in ideological debates, offering fresh visions of democratic participation, and facing personal political struggles. Their insistence that caregiving was valuable labor clashed with entrenched attitudes and rising criticisms of welfare. Their persistence, meanwhile, brought them into unlikely coalitions with black women, disabled miners, and others to fight for causes that ranged from poor people's rights to community health to unionization.

Inspiring yet sobering, To Live Here, You Have to Fight reveals Appalachian women as the indomitable caregivers of a region--and overlooked actors in the movements that defined their time.



Author: Jessica Wilkerson
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 12/30/2018
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780252083907

About the Author
Jessica Wilkerson is an associate professor and Joyce and Stuart Robbins Chair in the Department of History at West Virginia University.
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