Stories, quotes and anecdotes from Appalachia. 1880s-1950s era.

Category: Black Appalachia

The Scottsboro Boys

Soon after the guilty verdicts, the NAACP and the International Labor Defense came to the defense of the “Scottsboro Boys.”

In early days for some reason, the little town of Keystone, WV sported one of the biggest red light districts [Cinder Bottom] in existence.

Ohioans were quite active in aiding fugitive slaves on their journey north to freedom in Canada on the Underground Railroad network.

Many of Anne Spencer’s poems convey a romantic concern with the human search for beauty and meaning in a disgusting world.

They didn’t have hot water. They didn’t have toilet paper. They didn’t have doors on the bathroom . . . the girl’s bathroom.

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