Fifty Years Of Night
Chapter 1: Meet the man who focused the world on Eastern Kentucky's woes
Part 1 of a yearlong look at Eastern Kentucky since 1963, when Letcher County native Harry Caudill's extraordinary book, "Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area" riveted the nation’s attention on Appalachia and its struggles.
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About this yearlong series
In 1963, Harry Caudill of Whitesburg published Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area, which shone a spotlight on the plundering of the mountains of Eastern Kentucky. The book forever changed Appalachia.
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Chapter 2: The making of an angry book about an exploited Appalachia
Letcher County native Harry Caudill had a front-row seat to the destruction of Eastern Kentucky’s mountains, and he had the tools — education, wit and passion — to tell the world about it
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Chapter 4: Disillusioned, Harry Caudill blames 'genetic decline' in Eastern Kentucky
Ten years after his landmark book was published, Harry Caudill was frustrated and bitter about the stubbornness of Appalachian poverty. He began to blame his neighbors' 'weak genes.'
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The Whitesburg Conference
In 1974, a small group of men met in Whitesburg to propose intelligence testing for schoolchildren and their parents in Clay, Elliott and Leslie counties — and voluntary sterilization for families whose IQs were found to be too low.
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Chapter 5: Harry Caudill inspired the War on Poverty, but gloom darkens his legacy
Frustrated with Appalachia, 'Night Comes to the Cumberland' author Harry Caudill left for academia; he came back eight years later with a reputation diminished by his views on genetics and criticism of his literary methods.
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Fifty Years of Night e-book for sale
Can't wait to read the rest of Fifty Years of Night? You can read all five chapters of our Harry Caudill biography right now by purchasing our Fifty Years of Night e-book for just $3.99 at https://leanpub.com/night. Plus, you'll get free updates containing the rest of this series as it is published...
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Caudill to Osborne 09/05/74
Harry Caudill suggested how intelligence tests might be conducted on Eastern Kentucky school children in a letter to psychologist R. Travis Osborne.
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Caudill to Shockley, 08/26/74
Harry Caudill praised William Shockley's theories on inherited intelligence and finalized plans for Shockley's impending visit to Whitesburg.
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