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Languages : en
Pages : 612
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Mon/Fayette Transportation Project, from I-68 in Monongalia County, WV to Route 43 (formerly Chadville Demonstration Project) in Fayette County, PA
Author: Your Weeds and Your Neighbor's
Author: Andrew Delmar HopkinsPublisher:
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Category : Agrilus
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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Genealogical and Personal History of the Upper Monongahela Valley, West Virginia
Author: Bernard Lee ButcherPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806348496
Category : Monongahela River Valley (W. Va. and Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1050
Book Description
West Virginia Wild Life; Official Monthly Publication of the Wild Life League of West Virginia
Author: Area Redevelopment Act
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and CurrencyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1406
Book Description
Genealogical and Personal History of the Upper Monongahela Valley, West Virginia, Under the Editorial Supervision of Bernard L. Butcher ...
Author: Bernard Lee ButcherPublisher:
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Category : Monongahela River Valley (W. Va. and Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Counties of Monongalia, Preston, Taylor, Marion, Harrison, Lewis, Barbour, Upshur, Randolph and Tucker.
A Forgotten Migration
Author: Crystal R. SandersPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469679817
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
A Forgotten Migration tells the little-known story of "segregation scholarships" awarded by states in the US South to Black students seeking graduate education in the pre–Brown v. Board of Education era. Under the Plessy v. Ferguson decision, decades earlier, southern states could provide graduate opportunities for African Americans by creating separate but equal graduate programs at tax-supported Black colleges or by admitting Black students to historically white institutions. Most did neither and instead paid to send Black students out of state for graduate education. Crystal R. Sanders examines Black graduate students who relocated to the North, Midwest, and West to continue their education with segregation scholarships, revealing the many challenges they faced along the way. Students that entered out-of-state programs endured long and tedious travel, financial hardship, racial discrimination, isolation, and homesickness. With the passage of Brown in 1954, segregation scholarships began to wane, but the integration of graduate programs at southern public universities was slow. In telling this story, Sanders demonstrates how white efforts to preserve segregation led to the underfunding of public Black colleges, furthering racial inequality in American higher education.
Abandoned Tracks
Author: W. Thomas MainwaringPublisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN: 0268103607
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
In Abandoned Tracks, W. Thomas Mainwaring bridges the gap between scholarly and popular perceptions of the Underground Railroad. Historians have long recognized that many aspects of the Underground Railroad have been mythologized by emotion, memory, time, and wishful thinking. Mainwaring’s book is a rich, in-depth attempt to separate fact from fiction in one local area, while also contributing to a scholarly discussion of the Underground Railroad by placing Washington County, Pennsylvania, in the national context. Just as the North was not consistent in its perspective on the Civil War and the slavery issue, the Underground Railroad had distinct regional variations. Washington County had a well-organized abolition movement, even though its members helped a comparatively small number of fugitive slaves escape, largely because of the small nearby slave population in what was then western Virginia. Its origins as a slave county make it an interesting case study of the transition from slavery to freedom and of the origins of black and white abolitionism. Abandoned Tracks lends much to the ongoing scholarly debate about the extent, scope, and nature of the Underground Railroad. This book is written both for scholars of abolitionism and the Underground Railroad and for an audience interested in local history.
Back to the Land
Author: C. J MaloneyPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118023579
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
How New Deal economic policies played out in the small town of Arthurdale, West Virginia Today, the U.S. government is again moving to embrace New Deal-like economic policies. While much has been written about the New Deal from a macro perspective, little has been written about how New Deal programs played out on the ground. In Back to the Land, author CJ Maloney tells the true story of Arthurdale, West Virginia, a town created as a "pet project" of the Roosevelts. Designed to be (in the words of Eleanor Roosevelt) "a human experiment station", she was to create a "New American" citizen who would embrace a collectivist form of life. This book tells the story of what happened to the people resettled in Arthurdale and how the policies implemented there shaped America as we know it. Arthurdale was the foundation upon which modern America was built. Details economic history at the micro level, revealing the true effects of New Deal economic policies on everyday life Addresses the pros and cons of federal government economic policies Describes how good intentions and grand ideas can result in disastrous consequences, not only in purely materialistic terms but, most important, in respect for the rule of law Back to the Land is a valuable addition to economic and historical literature.
Portrait and Biographical Record of Winnebago and Boone Counties, Illinois
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Category : Boone County (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1328
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