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Podcast: Black in Appalachia
Episode: Black in Appalachia: On the anniversary of the Corbin Expulsion we present Trains written by Quiton Cockrell.
Description: On October 31, 1919, white residents of Corbin, Kentucky forcibly removed approximately 200 African Americans from the town. The victims were forced into box cars and sent to Knoxville, Tennessee. Corbin was left a virtually all-white town. Years later, Travis Hampton, a survivor of the purge, is leading a desperate, impoverished life with his family in Knoxville. When a white man, an old acquaintance from Corbin, approaches and attempts to “make things right,” Travis must come to terms with his past and his principles.