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Podcast: Black in Appalachia
Episode: Black in Appalachia: Black Coal Miners and The Great Migration
Description: In this episode of Black in Appalachia, Enkeshi and Angela discuss The Great Migration and the role that Appalachian coal miners played in it. With the rise of coal industry, thousands of Black laborers were recruited from the deep South to the coal fields of Kentucky, Virginia, and West Virginia. Black people, seeking living wages and to escape from racial terror settled in Appalachia coal towns before moving on to Northern cities like Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, and New York a generation or two later. Â