The Kentucky State University interim director for the Center for Research on the Eradication of Educational Disparities (CREED) recently received a favorable early review for his upcoming book.
Dr. William H. Turner, former interim president and current interim director of CREED at Kentucky State, received the first published review of his book, “The Harlan Renaissance: Stories of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns,” from the Daily Yonder. The Daily Yonder is a national news organization for rural people and places.
Turner said the book is due for release Oct. 1.
In the review, James Branscome noted the book is “the most detailed history of those coal camps that describes how Black people built sustaining communities in the midst of racism and discrimination and still produced so many ambitious, talented, and accomplished sons and daughters in separate and unequal schools.”