To Live Here, You Have to Fight
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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

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Acronyms
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. The Political and Gender Economy of the Mountain South, 1900ā€“1964
  9. 2. ā€œI Was Always Interested in Peopleā€™s Welfareā€: Bringing the War on Poverty to Kentucky
  10. 3. ā€œIn the Eyes of the Poor, the Black, the Youthā€: Poverty Politics in Appalachia
  11. 4. March for Survival: The Appalachian Welfare Rights Movement
  12. 5. ā€œThe Best Care in Historyā€: Interdependence and the Community Health Movement
  13. 6. ā€œIā€™m Fighting for My Own Children That Iā€™m Raising Upā€: Women, Labor, and Protest in Harlan County
  14. 7. ā€œNothing Worse than Being Poor and a Womanā€: Feminism in the Mountain South
  15. Epilogue
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index