By Stephen Fisher
Stephen L. Fisher is Hawthorne Professor of Political technology at Emory and Henry university in Emory, Virginia.
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That was the attitude that was there. All those Blazers passing that day, they'd go by and yell. You could tell, some of them were not hillbillies- I mean, they didn't have no hillbilly accent. You could tell they were Yankees straight in and out. They was thugs brought in from Chicago. Two of my little sisters had come back up and had come down with us the last trip . Me and Sary and Shirley were at the first gate, and both of them were little, one of them was nine and the other one was ten or eleven.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. M. A. W. , "Feeling Strong Together," in Growin' Up Country, ed. : Council of the Southern Mountains, 1973) , 25 1-54. Harry M. Caudill , My Land Is Dying (New York: Dutton, 1973) . For th e history o f the broad form deed, see Ronald D. Eller, Miners, Mill hands, and Moun taineers: Industrialization of the Appalachian South , 1880-1930 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1982) , 44-85. Marc K. : Resources for the Future, 1976), 200-201 . Tony Dunbar, Our Land Too (N ew York: Pantheon, 1971) , 137.
We had not planned or expected to stay. When we gathered to remember what had happened, we quickly reconstructed the events on the bench where we spent the day. We re membered the rain, the funny occurrences, the fear and indecision at the end. What we didn't remember was what most of us had never learned what had happened to Doris when she went out to the gate the last time. We did remember her anguish the next day, when we met at the MPR office in Hazard and learned that she felt we had taken an unreasonable, unconscionable risk.