Hey, I'm Kelly McEvers.

And I'm Chris Benderov.

And this is Embedded.

And these episodes about coal and jobs during the first year in Change of Donald Trump's

administration are in order.

So if you haven't, go back and listen from the beginning.

Every memorial day when Coreeda Brown was little, her parents would take her on a long drive

to visit her grandparents.

Both of her grandfather's were coal miners.

And so were nearly all the men in the town where they lived.

Lynch Kentucky.

And Coreeda and her family got to Lynch.

They'd be able to get food, tons of other kids to play with.

Everybody knew who Coreeda was.

And everyone was black, like her.

All I knew was that it was this black world, not only in Lynch, but all Appalachia in

my mind was black.

Coreeda got older and realized Appalachia was actually majority white.

But still, she wanted to know how did black people end up in this Kentucky town working

as coal miners.

So she studied sociology and now she researches this stuff.

She actually calls it the Great Migration Story you've never heard.

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