ROANOKE TIMES

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 11, 1990                   TAG: 9004110149
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-4   EDITION: STATE 
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DATELINE: BIG STONE GAP                                LENGTH: Short


APPALACHIAN BLACKS TOPIC OF PHOTO EXHIBIT

A photographic exhibit on blacks in Appalachia, put together by a former Clinch Valley College instructor, will be displayed at Mountain Empire Community College in the library's Slemp Gallery through April 26.

Wilburn Hayden, who heads the social work department at Western Carolina University, has titled the exhibit "It Takes Some Kicking: Voices in Black Appalachia."

Hayden became aware of the black coal-mining communities in the region about 13 years ago while at Clinch Valley. He decided to document them in an exhibit now being distributed nationally through the Appalachian Consortium's Traveling Exhibition program.

- Southwest bureau



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