Night Comes to the Cumberlands

Night Comes to the Cumberlands (1963) is a book by Harry Caudill that brought attention to poverty in Appalachia and is credited with making the Appalachian area a focus of the United States government's "War on poverty".[1] In Poverty in the United States: an encyclopedia of history, politics, and policy, the book is described as a "definitive text on poverty in Appalachia among journalists, academics, and government bureaucrats concerned with economic inequality in America." [2]

First cover (publ. Little, Brown)

References

Fowler, Glenn (1 December 1990). "Harry M. Caudill, 68, Who Told of Appalachian Poverty". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 June 2010.
Ronald D., Eller (2004). Gwendolyn Mink, Alice O'Connor (ed.). Poverty in the United States: an encyclopedia of history, politics, and policy, Volume 1. ABC-CLIO. p. 507. ISBN 1-57607-597-4. Retrieved 2 June 2010.

External links

Fifty Years of Night, a follow-up investigation by the Lexington Herald-Leader in 2012-2013

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[Harry_M._Caudill,_68,_Who_Told_of_Appalachian_Poverty-1] Fowler, Glenn (1 December 1990). "Harry M. Caudill, 68, Who Told of Appalachian Poverty". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 June 2010.

[Poverty_in_the_United_States:_an_encyclopedia_of_history,_politics,_and_policy,_Volume_1-2] Ronald D., Eller (2004). Gwendolyn Mink, Alice O'Connor (ed.). Poverty in the United States: an encyclopedia of history, politics, and policy, Volume 1. ABC-CLIO. p. 507. ISBN 1-57607-597-4. Retrieved 2 June 2010.