Research Catalog

Title

Black power comes to Appalachia : Bereans create the Black Appalachian Commission : a documentary history, 1969-70 / Edward D. Smith ; foreword by Claudette Schmidt Smith.

Author

Smith, Edward D.

Publication

• Bladensburg, Maryland : Edward D. Smith, [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

Smith, Claudette Schmidt

Description

xiv, 214 pages : illustrations, portraits; 23 cm

Summary

• "The movement (to create the Black Appalachian Commission) began in April 1969, when two black students who were attending the Council of the Southern Mountains Annual Conference at Fontana Village, North Carolina, arose and successfully persuaded the assembled body to vote to create a Commission on Black Appalachia, or Black Appalachian Commission (BAC). The two black students, Edward ("Ed") Smith and Homer Williams, were members of the recently formed Black Student Union at Berea College. They were heavily influenced by the emerging "Black Power Movement" with its philosophy of black pride, black culture, self-help, economic uplift, and political empowerment. They urged the Council to discard the myth that there were no blacks in Appalachia. Their attendance at the Conference and their enrollment at Berea College, a school for "mountain youth," was evidence that black communities did indeed exist in Appalachia." -- page xi of Preface.
• "Black power comes to Appalachia by Edward D. Smith, tells the story of a student-led movement to organize a commission within the Council of the Southern Mountains to address the needs of overlooked black communities in Appalachia. The author was a participant in that movement, so with the aid of over 120 pages of historical documents and more than 20 historical photographs, he has attempted to narrate its beginnings objectively. It is fitting that these once overlooked documents and pictures be made available in this book to mark the 50th anniversary of the Fontana Conference and the creation of the Black Appalachian Commission." -- Back cover.

Subject

• Williams, Homer
• Berea College > History
• Black Student Union (Berea College)
• Black Appalachian Commission
• Berea College
• Council of the Southern Mountains Conference 1969 : Fontana Village, North Carolina)
• 1900-1999
• African Americans > Appalachian Region
• African American student movements > Kentucky
• Student movements
• African American college students > Kentucky > Berea
• African Americans > Kentucky > History
• African Americans > Kentucky > Social conditions
• African Americans
• African American college students
• African American student movements
• African Americans > Social conditions
• Social conditions
• Race relations
• Appalachian Region > Economic conditions
• Appalachian Region > Race relations
• Kentucky > Race relations
• Appalachian Region
• Kentucky
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-200) and indexes.

Call Number

Sc E 19-1306

ISBN

• 9780998321912
• 0998321915

OCLC

1105147550

Author

Smith, Edward D., author.

Title

Black power comes to Appalachia : Bereans create the Black Appalachian Commission : a documentary history, 1969-70 / Edward D. Smith ; foreword by Claudette Schmidt Smith.

Publisher

Bladensburg, Maryland : Edward D. Smith, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-200) and indexes.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Smith, Claudette Schmidt, writer of foreword.

Research Call Number

Sc E 19-1306