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Download full textTrotter, Joe W. – 1988
This essay focuses on southern West Virginia between 1915 and 1932 to explore the dynamics of Afro-American work and community life in the Appalachian region. More specifically, it analyzes the rise and expansion of the black coal mining proletariat, the role of black men and women in the process, and the impact of the proletarianization on black…
Descriptors: Black Employment, Black History, Black Population Trends, Blacks
Frost, Norman – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1915
Information concerning educational conditions in the southern Appalachian region is scattered, fragmentary, and often partisan to the assumption either that conditions are ideal or that they are inconceivably bad. The purpose of this study is to draw together the available facts in the case. Necessarily, this study is largely statistical. The…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Topography, Counties, Geographic Regions
Tierney, Michael T. – Human Services in the Rural Environment, 1983
Details the history of Big Laurel, West Virginia from 1918-1941, 1941-1965, and 1965-1983, noting the effects on education of events in all three periods. Describes the opening, closing, consolidation, and reopening of community schools, and the construction, development, philosophy, and curriculum of the new Big Laurel School. (SB)
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Attitudes, Community Education, Community Involvement
Plein, L. Christopher – 2001
Structured work and training activities for welfare recipients in West Virginia began in 1962 when the state's entire caseload of two-parent families receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children was enrolled in mandatory work and training activities. In 1980s-1990s, the Community Work Experience Program became an important tool in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Compliance (Legal), Economic Climate, Economic Opportunities
PDF pending restorationRichmond, Lucille McGraw; Bathurst, Effie G. – Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1951
This bulletin tells how the boys and girls and staff of the elementary school at Culloden, West Virginia, recently took a critical look at their school program and decided that they ought to do something toward having more useful, interesting, and meaningful learning experiences. Accordingly, they began to develop a curriculum which was different…
Descriptors: Educational History, Elementary Schools, Curriculum Development, Elementary School Curriculum
