AN APPALACHIAN NEW DEAL: WEST VIRGINIA IN THE GREAT DEPRESSION

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INDEX Abbot, Edith, 155, 157 African Americans, 19-21, 199-206; state institutions for, 20; businesses owned by, 21; schools for, 24, 194; desire for music project in Wheeling, 149; camp for children of, 197; in coal mining, 199; and recreation, 200; as members of the UMWA, 200; and Depression politics, 200-203; and assistant director positions in public assistance, 203; and NRA, 203; in McDowell County, 203; and PWA, ~03-4; survey for subsistence homestead for, 204; in CCC, 205 Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, 2; lack of attention to poor farmers, 165; benefits to West Virginia farmers, 166; declared unconstitutional, 166 agriculture. See farming in West Virginia Alderson, Joseph N., 215 Alfriend, John S., 24 Allebach, Leroy, 208 Allen, c.L., 139, 143; hired as state relief administrator, 135 Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers, 95 Amend, Mary, 123 American Emergency Force (AEFl, 52 American Federation of Labor (AFLl, 223-25 American Friends Service Committee (AFSq, 54-57; Appalachian children's feeding program, 55; development of supplemental employment, 55-56; chairmaking and quilting, 56; West Virginia relief organization, 57; in Monongalia County, 168 American Legion, 58-59 Andrews, Carl, 227, 229, 230 Appalachia: ambiguity of term, 2; and study by U.S. Department of Agriculture, 179; West Virginia as symbolizing negative connotation of, 239; historiography of, 241 n 2 Appalachian Agreement, 1933,98 Appalachian contracts, 224, 237 Appalachian Electric Power Co., 23 Armstrong, Dr. W.O., 205 Arthurdale, 170-74; musical activity at, 149; and racial exclusivity, 204. See also subsistence homesteads Atlanta School of Social Work, 204 Babcock, Col. George D., 147 Bachman, Carl, 230 back to the land movement, 60, 162 Badger, Anthony J., 209, 234 Bailey, Ernest L., 138, 140,219,221 Baltimore, Md., 4 Bane, Frank, 154 banking: decline of, in twenties, 16; bank failures, 27; crisis in, 77; New Deal legislation on, 78 Barbour County, 175 Barbour Power Co., 177 Barkley, Alben, 104 barter systems, 60-61, 250 n 71 Bauman, John, 4 Beckley, 204 Beckley Post-Herald, on National Industrial Recovery Act, 106 Beehler, William N.: as West Virginia relief administrator, 118; Index background, 118-19; as political lightning rod, 119; addresses members of Unemployed League, 119; place in state history, 119; described, 120; and CWA, 120; defends Logan County welfare administrator, 122; removal sought, 123; denies charges of Republicanism, 124; defended by Harry Hopkins, 124;. on work relief, 126; and Kanawha County board, 130; fired, 135; on work relief for women, 192 Behner, Mary, 18 Bell, Frank R., 130, 131 Bennett, Herman, 217 Berkeley County, 58, 59, 65, 66 Berkeley Woolen Mills, 95 Bernstein, Irving, 9 Berry vs Fox, 85 Bethune, Mary McLeod, 205 Better West Virginia, A (WPA filml, 197 Beury, William, 100 Biddle, John L., 217 Big Sandy River Basin, 181 Biles, Roger, 239 Bittner, Van Amberg: negotiates deal at Scotts Run, 49; on Thomas C. Townsend, 71; opposes Guy Kump, 73; described, 92; on UMWA's success in southern West Virginia, 93; and coal code negotiations, 97; on NRA, 102; and Rush D.Holt, 104, 106, 14344 , 218; dares Kump to run for Senate, 213; denounces Gov. Homer Holt, 225; supports Roosevelt for presiderit, 229. See also United Mine Workers of America Black, Hugo, 104 Blackburn, Verna, 148, 149 black lung disease, 108 blacks. See African Americans Black Thursday, 27 Blakey, George T., 4 Blakey, Dr. Roy, 61 Blizzard, Reese, 38 Blizzard, William, 219, 225 Bluefield, 59 301 Bluefield Daily Telegraph, 35 Bonus Expeditionary Force (BEFI, and West Virginians, 51-53 Boone County, 46-47 Brant, Scott A., 47 Brooks, Harry L., 36, 37 Brooks, William E., 58, 133 Brookwood Labor College, 45 Brown, Herbert, 51, 53 Brown, Izetta Jewel, 16-17. See also Miller, Izetta Jewel Brown, Knight, and Jackson, 24, 104,215, 232, Bruchlacher, Esther, 54 Buckhannon Record, 68 Bureau of Agricultural Economics (BAEI, 180-85 Burke, Stephen P., 153, 154 Business and Professional Women of Charleston, 192-93 Byrd, Harry Flood, 76, 228 Byrd, Mrs. Percy, 25 Byrne, W.E.R., 37 Cabell County, 53 Cabin Creek, 43 Cairns, Thomas, 224 Calhoun County, 128, 161 Callaghan, Glenn, 199,205 Camp Boone, 196 Camp Brock, 197 Camp Fairchance, 196 Carmody, John, 177 Carter, Doak, 52-53 Carter, Fannie Cobb, 208 Carter, Ulysses G., 200 charity, 128-29 Charleston: and new capitol, 7; and twenties building boom, 24; and bonus marchers, 53; and Community Chest, 58; and Reconstruction Finance Corp., 66; and use of matching funds, 90; and NRA, 96; and NRA birthday parade, 102...