Author Name:   Garrison, Memphis Tennessee; Ewen, Lynda Ann; Bickley, Ancella R. (EDT); Bickley, Ancella R.

Title:    Memphis Tennessee Garrison : The Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman

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The daughter of former slaves,Memphis Tennessee Garrison moved with her family to McDowell County, West Virginia, at an early age. Garrison grew up surrounded by black workers who were the backbone of West Virginia's early mining work force - those who laid the railroad tracks, manned the coke ovens, and dug the coal. These workers and their families created communities that became the centers of black political activity - both in the struggle for the union and in the struggle for local political control. Memphis Tennessee Garrison, as an influential teacher and youth leader, as a political organizer, and ultimately as vice president of the National Board of the NAACP at the height of the civil rights movement (1963-66), was at the heart of these efforts.Based on transcripts of interviews recorded in 1969, Garrison's oral history is a rich, rare, and compelling story.

Ohio University Press

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McDowell County, West Virginia,

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