...claimed, stood still. Even when one able to think beyond the tired, old depictions of dirt-poor mountaineers, moonshiners, feudists like the Hatfields and McCoys, Protestant fundamentalists and snake-handlers, or the singers of old-time British ballads to the region's famously embattled coal miners, commonplace images, nonetheless, are of white "Anglo-Saxons." Appalachia's once large African American population is frequently overlooked. So too are Jewish labor organizers like Harry Simms who was murdered in "Bloody Harlan" Kentucky in 1932 for trying to organize a communist-led labor union there. Also overlooked are the many Jewish retailers who marketed consumer goods in places like Harlan...

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