Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
List of Figures xi
Introduction 1
1 "How Can They Expect Me as a Mother to Look Over That?": Maria Gunnoe's Fight for Her Children's Health and Safety 11
2 "We Became Two Determined Women": Pauline Canterberry and Mary Miller Become the Sylvester Dustbusters 27
3 "Let Us Live in Our Mountains": Joan Linville's Fight for Her Homeland 44
4 "You Gotta Go and Do Everything You Can-Fight for Your Kids": Donetta Blankenship Speaks Out against Underground Slurry Injections 60
5 "It's Just a Part of Who I Am": Maria Lambert and the Movement for Clean Water in Prenter 70
6 "I'm Not an Activist against Coal; I'm an Activist for the Preservation of My State": Teri Blanton and the Fight for Justice in Kentucky 84
7 "I'm Not Going to Be Run Out, I'm Not Going to Be Run Over, I'm Not Going Out without a Fight": Patty Sebok's Battle against Monster Coal Trucks 94
8 "Our Roots Run So Deep, You Can't Distinguish Us from the Earth We Live On": Debbie Jarrell and the Campaign to Move Marsh Fork Elementary School 112
9 "It's Not Just What I Choose to Do, It's Also, I Think, What I Have to Do": Lorelei Scarboro's Drive to Save Coal River Mountain 120
10 "Money Cannot Recreate What Nature Gives You": Donna Branham's Struggle against Mountaintop Removal 135
11 "I Want My Great-Great-Grandchildren to Be Able to Live on This Earth!" The Legacy of the Courageous Julia "Judy" Bonds 148
12 Conclusion 168
Notes 191
References 195
Index 203