Mountain Memories
A wave of new books from scholars shed light on the Appalachian past shared by many African Americans. By Angela P, Dodson
By its very nature, Appalachia is a hidden culture. The mountains keep its people, language and customs in a kind of time bubble, barring easy access to prying eyes of outsiders and the pressures for changes.
The region stretches along mountain ridges from New York to Mississippi with the core snaking through Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina. The face of its people most often seen by others is overwhelmingly white and poor. Yet these mountains have given the world accomplished black leaders, too- among them …
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