Memphis Tennessee Garrison : the remarkable story of a Black Appalachian woman /

Garrison, Memphis Tennessee, 1890-1988.

Memphis Tennessee Garrison : the remarkable story of a Black Appalachian woman / edited by Ancella R. Bickley and Lynda Ann Ewen ; historical afterword by Joe W. Trotter. - Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, c2001. - xxxiv, 249 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-239) and index.

A history of Memphis Tennessee Garrison, a teacher, worker at US Steel, and vice-president of the National Board of the NAACP at the height of the civil rights struggle (1963-66). Based on interview transcripts, it is the story of African-American life in a West Virginia company town.

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African American women--West Virginia
African Americans--McDowell County
African Americans--McDowell County
African Americans--West Virginia--West Virginia--West Virginia

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