1 / 9

“A Tradition of Poverty in West Virginia”

“A Tradition of Poverty in West Virginia”. Appalachian Region. Poverty in West Virginia.

denzel
Télécharger la présentation

“A Tradition of Poverty in West Virginia”

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. “A Tradition of Poverty in West Virginia”

  2. Appalachian Region

  3. Poverty in West Virginia

  4. West Virginia, Almost LevelHere's a look from above at strip mining for coal in West Virginia, a similar location to the one mentioned in Erik Reese's excellent work recently published in Harper's Magazine April 2005, excerpted among the images.

  5. The McCoy’s

  6. Mine guards at Cabin Creek Junction the day before martial law was declared, Sep 1, 1912

  7. WORKS CITED • Seligman, Ben B. Permanent Poverty. Chicago: Quadrangle Books Inc, 1968. • Ornati, Oscar. ­Poverty Amid Affluence: A Report on a Research Project carried out a the New School of Social Research. Ed. J. Stouder Sweet. New York: The Twentieth Century Fund, 1966. • Waltman, Jerold L. The Case for the Living Wage.­ New York: Algora Publishing, 2004. • United Mine Workers Journal. Lifting Appalachia Out of Poverty. Volume III No 3 May-June. 7 Oct. 2005. http://www.umwa.org/journal/VOL111No3/maypoverty.shtml

More Related