Program

Research Programs: State and Local and Regional Studies

Period of Performance

11/1/1979 - 10/31/1981

Funding Totals

$33,000.00 (approved)
$33,000.00 (awarded)


The Southern West Virginia Miners, 1922-1979: A Socio- cultural study of Existence, Resistance, and Reform

FAIN: RS-*0160-80

David A. Corbin
Unaffiliated Independent Scholar (Williamsburg, VA 23185)

To support the completion of a comprehensive socio-cultural study of southern West Virginia coal miners for 1922 to present, with special emphasis on oral interviews, folklore, letters from rank-and-file members, and similar grassroots material.