Word: appalachians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lined meadow between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument, the 15-acre "Resurrection City" slowly began to take shape last week. As thousands of poor Negroes, Indians, Mexican Americans and a few Appalachian whites wound toward the capital in eight separate caravans from as far off as Seattle, Boston and Edwards, Miss., volunteer carpenters hammered together more than 200 tent-shaped, 10-ft. by 20-ft. plywood-and-plastic shelters to house them...
...west, the clear bulge of Duck Creek as it purls over the smooth stones through Duck Hollow. Eb ? his real name is Elbert, but one doesn't call a mountain man that ? is 56, and he went blind seven years ago. (Degenerative blindness afflicts many Appalachian dwellers as a result of in breeding.) Lank and long-striding in his pale blue bib overalls, his sightless eyes gleaming under a faded brown fedora, Eb stalks his 52 hillside acres mending fences with the assurance of a man born to the slope. His four-room tar-papered house perches...
...hollers" to sample the hospitality of home, chow down on pokeweed salad and hog jowls, pop a squirrel with the old .22-cal. "hog rifle," or just "swang on the front stoop." Others are totally uprooted. In a second-story apartment on Chicago's North Side, an obese Appalachian woman grunted heavily as she heaved herself off the army blanket covering her bed. She flicked off the stained TV and said: "I've got trouble. My 14-year-old, he just got stabbed in the eye with a knife. The doctor's afraid he's goinq to lose it." Another...
...Appalachians are the most hopeless: they arrive in ancient automobiles, hoping for nothing more than a quick profit on a job that will permit them to return to their holler. They are generally too individualistic to work with others and cannot tolerate taking orders. When the womenfolk get work, male pride often degenerates to ire or alcoholism. The men get hooked on day-work (which they can quit easily), earning maybe $7 or $8 a day as a launderer, car washer or janitor. Or they begin hitting the bottle, hanging out in such bars as the "Country...
...demonstrators will descend on Washington in nine "caravans" that will include vehicles as disparate as Greyhound buses and 325 mule-drawn wagons. Though the majority of the marchers will be black, there will also be American Indians, Appalachian whites and Mexican-Americans led by California's César Chávez, who organized the successful Delano farmworkers' strikes, and New Mexico's Reies Tijerina, whose abortive attempt to "reclaim" land last year made him a latter-day conquistador in Spanish-American eyes...