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

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

Jessica Wilkerson

280 pages • first pub 2019 (view editions)

nonfiction feminism history challenging informative slow-paced
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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 b...

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