Night Comes to the Cumberlands

First cover (publ. Little, Brown)

Night Comes to the Cumberlands (1962) 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]

References

1. Fowler, Glenn (1 December 1990). "Harry M. Caudill, 68, Who Told of Appalachian Poverty". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 June 2010.
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.

External links

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