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Power, Light & Outmigration
Resource ID: 34428
Type: podcast episode, audio
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- UPDATED: 6.29.2025
- history, culture
- coal camps, outmigration
date:
2.16.2025
length:
56 min
podcast:
guest:
Ron Carson, Dr. Karida Brown
description:
This episode is a special live recorded production hosted at the National Archives Museum in Washington DC with Ron Carson and Dr. Karida Brown. Participants discussed Black life in Appalachian coal camps, mass outmigration & the return one generation later. Event was held in conjunction with the exhibition, 'Power & Light: Russell Lee’s Coal Survey'.
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