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Environmental Justice: Mining
Assignment #2: An Environmental & Economic History of
Coal Mining in Appalachia
- Readings: Calvin Trillin, T.N. Bethell, David B. Brooks, and Harry
M. Caudill, in David S. Walls & John B. Stephenson (eds.), Appalachia
in the Sixties: Decade of Reawakening109-146 (Lexington: University
Press of Kentucky, 1972); Kristin Layng Szakos, "People Power:
Working for the Future in the East Kentucky Coalfields," in
John Gaventa, Barbara Ellen Smith, & Alex Willingham (eds.),
Communities in Economic Crisis: Appalachia and the South 29-37 (Philadelphia:
Temple University Press, 1990).
- Recommended Course Texts: Harry M. Caudill, Night Comes to the
Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area (Boston: Little, Brown
and Company/Atlantic Monthly Press Book, 1963); Ronald D. Eller,
Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers: Industrialization of the Appalachian
South, 1880-1930 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1982).
- Recommended Novels: Denise Giardina, Storming Heaven(New York:
Ivy Books/First Ballantine Books ed., 1988); Denise Giardina, The
Unquiet Earth (New York: W.W. Norton, 1992).
- Benign
Betrayal: Capitalist Intervention in Pocahontas County, West Virginia,
1890-1910.
- Films (To Be Shown in Class): (1) In Memory of the Land and
People (1977)(50 min.) (16mm)(Robert Gates director)(AV Library/Colson
Hall: F1762 AV LIB). (2) On Our Own Land (29 min.)(Appalshop,
Whitesburg, Kentucky, 1988): From the Appalshop web-site: In the
Appalachian coalfields, broadform deeds were used, beginning around
1900, to sever the ownership of mineral rights from the ownership
of the surface land. Although surface mining was virtually unheard
of at the time most of these deeds were signed, Kentucky courts
ruled years later that the owners of such deeds could strip mine
the land without the consent of the surface owners. On Our Own
Land chronicles the citizens' fight to have the broadform deed
declared unconstitutional in Kentucky. The story unfolds through
the voices of local people as the viewer meets a family determined
not to move their father's grave for strip miners, sees the rubble
of a strip job "reclaimed" to the letter of the law, and
watches as citizens protest strip mine abuses and push the state
legislature for reform. On Our Own Landfocuses on effective
citizens' movements and grassroots political organizing, the environmental
and economic "tradeoffs" associated with surface coalmining
and industrial development, and the gap between justice and the
law.
West Virginia Coal Mining History
History
of West Virginia Mineral Industries: Coal
Benign
Betrayal: Capitalist Intervention in Pocahontas County, West Virginia,
1890-1910
West Virginia's
Mine Wars
West
Virginia's Mine Wars
Era of the
Mine Wars
West
Virginia Coal Mine Wars, 1920-1921
Three Days
Battle of the Tug
Buffalo Creek
(Charleston Gazette)
Buffalo
Creek (West Virginia State Archives)
Matewan (West Virginia)
- Coal Mining History in Other Appalachian States
David B. Robinson,
Coal Mining in Chesterfield County, Virginia
Kentucky
Coal Heritage
Kentucky
Coal Mining Museum
Kentucky’s
Coal Industry: Historical Trends and Future Opportunities
Mining History
Association
Mining
History Network
International Archive
of Economic Geology (University of Wyoming)
BC
(British Columbia) Museum of Mining
Mining History (Links)
- Mining History Bibliographies
Mining
History Bibliographies (Mining History Network)
Recent Publications
On The History Of Mining
Bibliography
of North American Mining History
More WV Mining Resources
West Virginia Coal Association
Pocahontas Coal Association
Coal Mining in Kentucky
Kentucky
Coal Facts Book
The Kentucky Coal Marketing and Kentucky Coal Association view of
Kentucky's coal mining, including a section on their view of environmental
matters.
US Geological
Survey: Programs in Kentucky
Coal Education Web-site
Kentucky Mining Institute
Kentucky Department
of Mines and Minerals
Kentucky
Coal Mining Museum
Coal (Kentucky
Geological Survey)
Economy, Environment, Development
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