Summary

Catte begins the third part of the book, entitled “Land, Justice, and People,” with an account of a 1967 police raid on the home of Karen and Joseph Mulloy, community organizers living in Pike County, Kentucky. The couple were seen as a threat to authorities due to their involvement with anti-poverty and anti-coal causes; consequently, they were arrested for sedition along with their neighbors Carl Braden and Alan McSurely. Braden in particular, had been arrested for sedition prior to this incident, when he attempted to help an African-American couple purchase a home in the 1950s. The sheriff accused the whole group of attempting to overthrow Pike County and put it “in the hands of the poor” (98).

Catte claims she wants to relate Appalachian history the way that it appears to her – visually, through descriptions of photographs about actual Appalachians. The first photograph depicts elderly...