Reading Appalachia from Left to Right: Conservatives and the 1974 Kanawha County Textbook Controversy

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235 Index Page numbers in italics refer to figures abortion, 40, 64, 93, 116, 163, 164, 212n41 affirmative action, 92, 144, 192 African Americans: Appalachia and(see under Appalachia); community leaders, 46; discrimination against, 144–45; ethnic struggle of, 25, 164; representation of in textbooks, 21– 22, 45–46, 49–51, 157; residents of Kanawha County, 1, 32, 51, 58, 80, 86; schools, 160–61; on textbook review board, 47–48. See also National Association for the Advancement of Colored People American Party. See Wallace, George anti-busing campaigns. See under integration and segregation Anti-Defamation League (ADL), 67, 75 anti-Semitism, 74, 84, 98, 99, 152, 173. See also conspiracy theories: Jewish control of financial systems, government and media; Dietz, George: anti-Semitism of; Nazis and neoNazis apocalypticism and millennialism: The Late Great Planet Earth (Hal Lindsey), 25, 43–44; Marshner, Connie and, 151–52; Pierce, William and, 80–81, 84, 85, 88, 89, 150; rightwing narratives and, 128, 133, 134, 149, 151, 153, 164–65, 169, 180, 190; Rushdoony, Rousas J. and, 119–20, 151; textbook controversy and, 11, 25, 45, 80, 146, 148 Appalachia: African Americans and, 58– 59, 80; class and, 13–14, 28, 29–30, 33, 91, 180; coal industry (see under coal industry); definition of, 189; dialect of, 22, 94; hillbilly image and, 7, 8, 11–15, 24, 25, 29, 30, 54–55, 81, 161, 178; identity, 69, 134, 153, 168, 181; imagery of, 12, 13, 29, 30, 33, 81–83, 84, 85–86, 87–88, 175–76; media portrayal of, 11, 12, 15, 29, 33, 40–41, 55, 87, 91; race and, 26, 46, 58, 60–61, 72, 73, 77, 86–87, 136–37, 162, 165, 170; Right and, 134, 169, 170, 179, 180; Scots-Irish heritage of, 14, 41, 72–73, 136–37, 176–77, 190–91; stereotypes of, 8, 11, 24, 26, 32, 33, 36; timber industry, 55, 72; volunteers in, 167–70; white supremacists and, 60, 80, 82, 86. See also War on Poverty back-to-the-land movement, 81–82 Best, Bill, 167–70, 180 Blackboard Power: NEA Threat to America (Drake). See Christian Crusade: Drake, Gordon V. Blackboard Tyranny (Marshner). See under Marshner, Connaught Coyne “Connie” Index 236 black nationalism: Black Panthers, 155; black power: 26, 106, 160; education reform and, 160–61; black militants, 21, 22, 49, 145, 157, 159; soul and, 134; revolutionaries, 53, 162. See also Cleaver, Eldridge bombings, 5, 6, 7, 24, 36, 37, 44, 62, 64, 68, 79, 170, 174. See also violence Boone, Daniel, 73, 87, 175 Brown v. Board of Education. See under integration and segregation; Supreme Court Byrd, Sen. Robert C., 61–62 Carter, Jimmy, 115, 118. See also White House Conference on Families (WHCF) Catholics, 67, 116, 118, 213n60 Chow, Rey, 17, 149–50, 152–54, 163–64 Christian Coalition, 126 Christian Crusade: campaigns of, 107, 109, 110, 113; Christian Crusade Weekly, 38, 110, 146–47, 153, 155–57; Drake, Gordon V., 105–7, 110, 113; Fike, Elmer and, 146–47; Hargis, Billy James (see under religious leaders); media portrayal of, 110; Moore, Alice and, 38–39, 105, 110, 153; Paul, Linda and, 154; Secrest, Charles and, 11, 38, 110 Christian fundamentalists. See fundamentalist Christianity Citizens Councils of America, 37, 53. See also integration and segregation civil rights movement, 26, 27, 40, 61, 64, 77, 193 class: alliances between working and middle classes, 25, 35, 84, 97, 118, 129, 134, 148, 149, 153–54, 170, 178– 79, 180; Appalachia and(see under Appalachia); class conflict in textbook controversy, 2, 16, 28, 30–36, 51, 54–55, 70, 123, 134, 154; curriculum and, 46, 47, 162; ethnicity and, 149; in Kanawha County, 2, 17, 123, 179; Marxism, 150; working class protesters, 11, 24, 25, 29, 34, 35, 39, 97, 98, 114, 115, 124, 128–29, 146, 148, 161, 170 Cleaver, Eldridge, 19–22, 25, 48–49, 52, 131, 145, 148, 155–61, 164. See also black nationalism; rape coal industry: in Appalachia, 72–73, 167, 170; coal wars, 25, 29, 169, 179; demographics of, 58–59; in Kanawha County, 1, 2, 23, 25, 40, 55, 58–59; miners, 11, 16, 34, 61, 91, 172, 173, 181; strikes, 2, 5, 7, 35–36, 122, 179; United Mine Workers Union (UMWA), 2, 34, 68, 201n20 communism and anticommunism: Appalachian values and, 180; of conservatives, 190; education and, 3, 9–10, 70–71, 78, 89, 100, 104–7, 109, 110–11, 113, 147, 171; Hill, Avis and, 175; Jews and...