Free Uneven Ground by Ronald D. Eller

September–October 1983, 19.
    36 . James Tunnell, “Un-American Activities Unit Voted,”
Louisville Courier-Journal
, March 9, 1968.
    37 . Bill Peterson, “Witness Scolds AV Probers for Attacks,”
Louisville Courier-Journal
, December 4, 1968; Whisnant,
Modernizing the Mountaineer
, 207; Bill Peterson, “Fighting Splits Pikeville as KUAC Probe Nears,”
Louisville Courier-Journal
, October 10, 1968.
    38 . Peterson, “Fighting Splits Pikeville.”
    39 . Peter Schrag, “Appalachia: Again the Forgotten Land,”
Saturday Review
, January 27, 1968, 14.
    40 . “Kennedy Hears of Need for Jobs during Two-Day Mountain Tour,”
Whitesburg (KY) Mountain Eagle
, February 15, 1968.
    41 . Schrag, “Appalachia,” 16, 18.
    42 . The complete text of Caudill’s testimony is reprinted in the
Whitesburg (KY) Mountain Eagle
, February 15, 1968.
    43 .
Whitesburg (KY) Mountain Eagle
, February 15, 1968.
    44 .
To Save the Land and People
, dir. Anne Lewis (Whitesburg, KY: Appalshop Inc., 1999).
    45 . Schrag, “Appalachia,” 16.
    46 . See Bill Peterson, “Political Battle Brewing on Anti-Poverty Program,”
Louisville Courier-Journal
, September 20, 1969, and “Poverty: Feud in the Hills,”
Time
, September 12, 1969, 21.
    47 . K. W. Lee, “Catalyst of the Black Lung Movement,” in Walls and Stephenson,
Appalachia in the Sixties
, 201–9.
    48 . Carawan and Carawan,
Voices from the Mountains
, 172–80.
    49 . Richard P. Mulcahy,
A Social Contract for the Coal Fields: The Rise and Fall of the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund
(Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000), 147–48; Caudill,
Watches of the Night
, 53–55.
    50 . Caudill,
Watches of the Night
, 147–72.
    51 . George Vecsey, “Ideal of Unity Stirs Appalachian Poor,”
New York Times
, April 23, 1972.
    52 . For the history of the MFD movement, see George W. Hopkins, “The Miners for Democracy: Insurgency in the United Mine Workers of America, 1970–1972” (PhD diss., University of North Carolina, 1976); Seltzer,
Fire inthe Hole
; and Paul J. Nyden, “Miners for Democracy: Struggle in the Coal Fields” (PhD diss., Columbia University, 1974).
    53 . The best history of the struggle against surface mining in Appalachia is Montrie,
To Save the Land
.
    54 . Montrie,
To Save the Land
, 102.
    55 . Ibid., 104–5, 149.
    56 . See Thomas N. Bethell and Davitt McAteer,
The Pittston Mentality: Manslaughter on Buffalo Creek
(Huntington, WV: Appalachian Movement Press, 1972), and Kai T. Erikson,
Everything in Its Path: Destruction of Community in the Buffalo Creek Flood
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1976).
    57 .
Mountain Life and Work
, June–July 1972, 20–22; Montrie,
To Save the Land
, 149–51.
    58 . Ben A. Franklin, “President Signs Strip Mining Bill, but Cites Defects,”
New York Times
, August 4, 1972.
    59 .
Mountain Life and Work
, November 1971, 22–30, June–July 1972, 20–21.
    60 .
Mountain Life and Work
, March 1972, 10.
    61 .
Mountain Life and Work
, January 1970, 8.
    62 . Bryan Woolley, “Challenge for a Mountain Man,”
Louisville Courier-Journal
, September 27, 1970.
    63 .
Mountain Life and Work
, June–July 1972, 22.
    64 .
Mountain Life and Work
, November 1972, 27.
    65 .
Mountain Life and Work
, October 1977, 40, September 1977, 46, August 1977, 46.
    66 . Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force,
Who Owns Appalachia? Landownership and Its Impact
(Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1983). See also Steve Fisher, ed.,
A Landless People in a Rural Region: A Reader on Land Ownership and Property Taxation in Appalachia
(New Market, TN: Highlander Research and Education Center, 1979).
    67 . See Jim White, Ronald D Eller, and Debbie Auer,
Coal Severance Taxation: A Comparison of State Strategies for Collection and Distribution
(Lexington: University of Kentucky Appalachian Center,