West Virginia University Press
"They'll cut off your project"; a Mingo County chronicle, 2d ed.
When Huey Perry was named to head the Mingo County Economic Opportunity Commission project in West Virginia as part of President Lyndon Johnson's "War on Poverty" initiatives, he began to promote community action programs among the poor (such as founding a communal grocery store) that led inevitably to clashes with the area's local political elites, in a region that had long been characterized by violent clashes between the haves and the have-nots. This is his memoir of those years, offering a grassroots perspective of how the "War on Poverty" played out in Appalachia and a political and economic picture of Mingo County some decades after the coal wars had led to it being nicknamed "Bloody Mingo." (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
