On A Burning Deck. The Road to Akron.: An Oral History of The Great Migration.

Winner of publishing excellence awards from both the Ohio Local History Alliance and the Kentucky Historical Society, On A Burning Deck tells the forgotten story of the Appalachian families who helped build industrial Ohio.

In the earliest decades of the 20th century, more than twenty-eight million men and women-black and white-began "The Great Migration" north from the Deep South and Appalachia, lured by high wages and the opportunity to make a better life for themselves and their families...