Thomas Wagner - Phillip Obermiller Appalachian Migrant Research Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0240
Scope and Contents
This collection contains Obermiller and Wagner's oral history interviews relating to Appalachian migrant organizations and eastern Kentucky coal company towns.
Listen To Interviews / Read Transcripts
Dates
- Other: Majority of material found in 1972-2000
Creator
- Obermiller, Phillip J. (Person)
- Wagner, Thomas E. (Person)
Extent
3.4 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This collection contain records of Phillip J. Obermiller and Thomas E. Wagner related to their joint scholarly work that focused on the areas of Appalachian migration generally and city based Appalachian migrant groups and organizations in particular.
Bibliography
Phillip Obermiller holds graduate degrees in philosophy from the Athenaeum of Ohio and in sociology from the Union Institute. Thomas Wagner holds graduate degrees in urban education and American history from the University of Cincinnati. Among their jointly authored publications are Valuing Our Past, Creating Our Future: the Founding of the Urban Appalachian Council and African American Miners and Migrants: the Eastern Kentucky Social Club.
Other Descriptive Information
Unprocessed portion of the collection is included in Accession 1028
Processing Information
Links to transcripts and digital recordings of interviews added 2018. Finding guide updated April 2019 and Aug 2021.
Subject
- Urban Appalachian Council. (Organization)
- Obermiller, Phillip J. (Person)
- Wagner, Thomas E. (Person)
- Maloney, Michael E. (Person)
- Title
- Finding Aid for the Thomas Wagner - Phillip Obermiller Appalachian Migrant Research Collection
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- eng
Repository Details
Part of the Berea College Special Collections and Archives Repository
Contact:
Hutchins Library
100 Campus Drive
Berea Kentucky 40404 US
859.985.3262
special_collections@berea.edu
Hutchins Library
100 Campus Drive
Berea Kentucky 40404 US
859.985.3262
special_collections@berea.edu