"Coming up the rough side of the mountain" : African-Americans and coal camps in Appalachia -- "Life for me ain't been no crystal stair" : African-Americans in coal towns -- "I don't know where to, but we're moving" : African-American survival strategies in coal towns -- "Sing a song of 'welfare'" : corporate communities and welfare capitalism in southeastern Kentucky -- "Living tolerably well together" : life in the model towns along Looney Creek -- "What kept you standing, why didn't you fall?" : African-Americans in Benham and Lynch -- "One close community" : the Eastern Kentucky Social Club -- "They love coming home" : Appalachian ties that bind -- Afterword: Values, spoken and unspoken / William H. Turner
