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Perhaps I should say right at the beginning that I can find just as many sad, discouraging, and frustrating things as the next man in the daily routines of humane work but about the humane cause and the humane movement I am an incorrigible optimist. There are problems, but we have a record of solving and surmounting problems. There is cruelty and there is suffering, demanding of us unremitting work, but I do solemnly believe that we are steadily, exhilaratingly making progress. I think, in fact, that the first great premise of this meeting, a conviction implicit in the fact that we are here, is that cruelty can be substantially prevented, kindness can be usefully taught or encouraged, and suffering significantly decreased. We start our deliberations today, as we always do in these meetings, with a reiteration of that faith and a determination to make reality of those possibilities.

The M. H. Ross Papers contain information pertaining to labor, politics, social issues of the twentieth century, coal mining and its resulting lifestyle, as well as photographs and audio materials. The collection is made up of five different accessions; L2001-05, which is contained in boxes one through 104, L2002-09 in boxes 106 through 120, L2006-16 in boxes 105 and 120, L2001-01 in boxes 120-121, and L2012-20 in boxes 122-125. The campaign materials consist of items from the 1940 and 1948 political campaigns in which Ross participated. These items include campaign cards, posters, speech transcripts, news clippings, rally materials, letters to voters, and fliers. Organizing and arbitration materials covers labor organizing events from "Operation Dixie" in Georgia, the furniture workers in North Carolina, and the Mine-Mill workers in the Western United States. Organizing materials include fliers, correspondence, news articles, radio transcripts, and some related photos. Arbitration files consist of agreements, decisions, and agreement booklets. The social and political research files cover a wide time period (1930's to the late 1970's/early 1980's). The topics include mainly the Ku Klux Klan, racism, Communism, Red Scare, red baiting, United States history, and literature. These files consist mostly of news and journal articles. Ross interacted with coal miners while doing work for the United Mine Workers Association (UMWA) and while working at the Fairmont Clinic in West Virginia. Included in these related files are books, news articles, journals, UMWA reports, and coal miner oral histories conducted by Ross. Tying in to all of the activities Ross participated in during his life were his research and manuscript files. He wrote numerous newspaper and journal articles on history and labor. Later, as he worked for the UMWA and at the Fairmont Clinic, he wrote more in-depth articles about coal miners, their lifestyle, and medical problems they faced (while the Southern Labor Archives has many of Ross's coal mining and lifestyle articles, it does not have any of his medical articles). Along with these articles are the research files Ross collected to write them, which consist of notes, books, and newspaper and journal articles. In additional to his professional career, Ross was adamant about documenting his and his wife's family history in the oral history format. Of particular interest are the recordings of his interviews with his wife's family - they were workers, musicians, and singers of labor and folk songs. Finally, in this collection are a number of photographs and slides, which include images of organizing, coal mining (from the late 19th through 20th centuries), and Appalachia. Of note is a small photo album from the 1930s which contains images from the Summer School for Workers, and more labor organizing. A few audio items are available as well, such as Ross political speeches and an oral history in which Ross was interviewed by his daughter, Jane Ross Davis in 1986. All photographic and audio-visual materials are at the end of their respective series. ; Myron Howard "Mike" Ross was born November 9, 1919 in New York City. He dropped out of school when he was seventeen and moved to Texas, where he worked on a farm. From 1936 until 1939, Ross worked in a bakery in North Carolina. In the summer of 1938, he attended the Southern School for Workers in Asheville, North Carolina. During the fall of 1938, Ross would attend the first Southern Conference on Human Welfare in Birmingham, Alabama. He would attend this conference again in 1940 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. From 1939 to 1940, Ross worked for the United Mine Workers Non-Partisan League in North Carolina, working under John L. Lewis. He was hired as a union organizer by the United Mine Workers of America, and sent to Saltville, Virginia and Rockwood, Tennessee. In 1940, Ross ran for a seat on city council on the People's Platform in Charlotte, North Carolina. During this time, he also married Anne "Buddie" West of Kennesaw, Georgia. From 1941 until 1945, Ross served as an infantryman for the United States Army. He sustained injuries near the Battle of the Bulge in the winter of 1944. From 1945 until 1949, Ross worked for the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, then part of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), as a union organizer. He was sent to Macon, Georgia, Savannah, Georgia and to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he worked with the United Furniture Workers Union. He began handling arbitration for the unions. In 1948, Ross ran for United States Congress on the Progressive Party ticket in North Carolina. He also served as the secretary for the North Carolina Progressive Party. Ross attended the University of North Carolina law school from 1949 to 1952. He graduated with honors but was denied the bar on the grounds of "character." From 1952 until 1955, he worked for the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers as a union organizer, first in New Mexico (potash mines) and then in Arizona (copper mines). From 1955 to 1957, Ross attended the Columbia University School of Public Health. He worked for the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund from 1957 to 1958, where he represented the union in expenditure of health care for mining workers. By 1958, Ross began plans for what would become the Fairmont Clinic, a prepaid group practice in Fairmont, West Virginia, which had the mission of providing high quality medical care for miners and their families. From 1958 until 1978, Ross served as administrator of the Fairmont Clinic. As a result of this work, Ross began researching coal mining, especially coal mining lifestyle, heritage and history of coal mining and disasters. He would interview over one hundred miners (coal miners). Eventually, Ross began writing a manuscript about the history of coal mining. Working for the Rural Practice Program of the University of North Carolina from 1980 until 1987, Ross taught in the medical school. M. H. Ross died on January 31, 1987 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. ; Digitization of the M. H. Ross Papers was funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

INTRODUCTION In all communities the number one consideration should be health, As it is known, without it there just would not be progress. In the early days, health was not carried to its fullest extent because people had less knowledge of the care for one's body and surroundings. With the change of time and this new age, there should not be any need for neglect of one's self and his surroundings. Within the text of this thesis, the writer has tried to cover some of the things that contribute to healthful living. Special emphasis has been given to health: social, political, and economic. A brief history of health will be found within this text. The facts are as the writer found them in the study of this community. The writer also used other authors' and educators' points of view on this subject. Sweeny is a small city located in South Texas. It is twenty miles west of Bay City, Texas, ten miles north of West Columbia, Texas, twenty-six miles east of Free Port, Texas, and sixty-six miles south of Houston. It is located between two big industries: Dow Chemical Plant in Free Port, and Old Ocean Gas and Refinery in Old Ocean, Texas, Sweeny is a low, flat area which causes the water to empty from it into the Gulf of Mexico. The land is fertile and suitable for farming most all kinds of crops and for cattle raising. Its ground is rich with minerals. The city receives as much rainfall as any other city in this area. THE PROBLEM Statement of the problem. It was the purpose of this study (1) to investigate the health conditions of the Negro citizens in Sweeny; (2) to investigate the factors influencing health conditions; and (3) to determine if the Negro citizens live in circumstances above or below the normal health standards. Purpose of the study. This study was undertaken because the writer was interested in the health of the people in the community. The writer feels that the need for health improvement is highly important in our present-day society, With the prevalence of disease and increases in population, a community should try to maintain its highest health standards.

International audience ; La psychologie semble devoir rester perpétuellement en état de crise, constamment sollicitée et divisée par le tentation biologique et la tentation sociologique. Sans cesse, à mesure que se précise la connaissance des structures nerveuses et des conditions hormonales de l'équilibre du vivant, le psychologue découvre que les conduites qu'il a décrites ont un substrat physiologique profond: de plus en plus profond. [.] D'un autre côté n'est-il pas évident que les conduites humaines sont permises par l'ensemble culturel qui leur donne du sens? Elles visent parole, travail, jeu, création artistiques ou scientifiques, entreprises économiques ou politiques, le maintien ou l'édification d'une civilisation.

International audience ; La psychologie semble devoir rester perpétuellement en état de crise, constamment sollicitée et divisée par le tentation biologique et la tentation sociologique. Sans cesse, à mesure que se précise la connaissance des structures nerveuses et des conditions hormonales de l'équilibre du vivant, le psychologue découvre que les conduites qu'il a décrites ont un substrat physiologique profond: de plus en plus profond. [.] D'un autre côté n'est-il pas évident que les conduites humaines sont permises par l'ensemble culturel qui leur donne du sens? Elles visent parole, travail, jeu, création artistiques ou scientifiques, entreprises économiques ou politiques, le maintien ou l'édification d'une civilisation.

Speech on the need for conciliation ; Speech by Brooks Hays Blue Ridge, North Carolina July 27, 1963 Conciliation – A New Factor in the South's Progress The south has advanced by almost every measurement. Once we were the stricken South – for war and poverty took their toll. Through nearly seventy-five years following the Civil War, both racial groups shared in the experience produced by poverty, illness, and poor schools; and when partial solutions were being discovered, grave inequalities made it impossible for all segments of Southern society to advance together. Rural whites along with both urban and rural Negroes failed to share equitably in the region's progress. More recently, relative poverty has affected the white population of the cities almost to the same extent as in rural areas. Courageous men and women, moved by a vision of a better life for the region, have continued to attack upon adversity. The negative sin of indifference to social wrongs has also become a target. The antidote for these wrongs is our idealism, and it has an outcropping in the church, in the colleges and schools, and in business and politics. The concept of a Solid South has generally been confined to politics. This, too, is changing. We do not need a provincial consciousness with distorted political expressions such as we had in the third party movements of 1948. Ancient shibboleths cannot unite the South, but a quickened conscience will help us invoke a spirit of unity in the

Speech on the need for conciliation ; -2- struggle for economic justice, political righteousness, and racial harmony. This will promote right relations with the North and aid the resurgence of patriotism for which all thoughtful persons yearn. For the people of the North, whatever their failings in the past, do not despise us, nor are they longer defining the race problem in terms of Southern intransigence. It was become a national problem with sharp regional differences, but a challenge to all of us. I doubt that we can preserve our most cherished values if we fall out among ourselves and permit a mishandling of the racial crisis. Christian education is one key to this basic and foremost problem of our country. The minister and the teacher are instruments of moral power to promote racial justice. Legislative craftsmanship for immediate needs is essential but the importance of moral exertion is apparent. It must have fresh impetus and must be based upon an appreciation of human dignity and a determination to achieve equal opportunity for all. If all of the demands of the racial minority were embodied into Federal statutes, there would remain the urgent need for activity by men and women of good will in both races to work at the local level for the promotion of these ideals. Conciliation is a vital feature in President Kennedy's program; for the stronger legislative props for human rights requested by him will still leave large areas which only moral force can achieve genuine progress.

Speech on the need for conciliation ; 5 The restlessness of the minority is understandable. The Negro has suffered greatly and he is seeking prompt adjustment of his grievance. He has moved patiently through a long tunnel with the light of hope ahead. He expects the responsible leadership of the region and the nation to keep that light burning. Where there is indifference by members of the white race to the plight of those at the Negro community's lowest levels, this indifference may also be shared by favored segments of the Negro population. I am told by some of the Negro leaders that a problem exists in inducing the successful and prosperous Negro not to forget his own humble beginnings or turn away from those of his own race who are less fortunate in a material sense. This resembles the dull response by some of the white race to the adversity of their poor rural cousins - thus indicating that it is a human problem as well as racial. It is ironic, too, that some of the white majority who remain in unfavorable economic positions not only withhold sympathy and aid, but actually exhibit an antipathy for the Negroes whose aspirations for improved status are identical with their own. Let us recognize the common evils, acknowledge our common humanity, and exalt our common faith.

This is a speech given by Raymond Nakai at the Navajo Nation Fair. The speech is given on behalf of visitors to the Navajo tribal fair, informing them about what they might see and experience. Nakai is making sure that visitors know that the Navajo culture is a living culture and that along with tradition, progress in education is also occurring. The Navajo Nation Fair shows a small window of what is happening with the Navajo Nation. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: Raymond Nakai, a Navajo Indian, was born in 1918 in Lukachukai, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation. Raymond Nakai is noted as being the first modern Navajo political leader serving as Chairman of the Navajo Nation from 1963-1971. As chairman, the issues most important during his tenure were self determination in Navajo Education, reservation unemployment, developing Navajo economy, further development of the tribal government and improving relations with the federal government and surrounding states. Nakai had much unprecedented success as Navajo Tribal Chairman: In 1967 the Navajo Nation Bill of Rights was created, in 1968 Navajo Community College opened being the first tribally controlled community college, the Tribal Scholarship Trust was developed, relations with off reservation natural resource companies began, he was supportive of religious freedom of the Native American Church on the Navajo Reservation. Raymond Nakai led an active personal and political life and was an innovative leader for the Navajo People. The Raymond Nakai Collection contains material documenting his activities as Chairman of the Navajo Nation from 1963 - 1971.

The article analyzes the two directions of Lithuania ideological approaches to children's reading at the beginning of the 20th century regarding the Marxist-Leninist doctrine of the two cultures in every national cultural spirit. The clerical bourgeoisie, who had followed the czarist regime, promoted religiosity, blind obedience to the czar, and ruling class reading books, and they published clerical children's literature. The liberal bourgeoisie, frightened by the growth of the revolutionary movement, was against a revolution. The liberal bourgeoisie were joined by some democrats and progressive intellectuals who were concerned with public education, actively participated in the country's cultural life, and worked for the liberal press. G. Petkevičiūtė-Bitė, P. Mašiotas, J. Jablonskis, K. Vairas-Račkauskas, K. Skabeika, and others wrote about the education of children and children's literature. Revolutionary Social Democrats (V. Mickevičius-Kapsukas, Z. Aleksa-Angarietis, etc.) demanded abolition of child labor, the introduction of universal children's education, and education's democratization. After an analysis of the social and political situation in the beginning of 20th century Lithuania, the article concluded that the leading Lithuanian authors depicting the tragic situation of children in the capitalist political system were influenced by the national liberation and social fight of the nation. J. Biliūnas, Žemaitė, Lazdynų Pelėda, L. Didžiulienė-Žmona, K. Jasiukaitis, V. Mickevičius-Kapsukas, J. Šepetys, J. Janonis, K. Stiklius, K. Lekeckas, and others portrayed Children's life as oppressed and exploited by the bourgeoisie. Progressive ideas were reflected in M. Pečkauskaitė's Šatrijos Ragana (Witch's) story "The Light" and in the best stories of K. Sakalausko-Vanagėlis, P. Mašiotas M. Grigonis for children. A religious world view established itself in Lithuanian literature as, reflected in some moments of the class struggle at the beginning of 20th century. It was the beginning of a fierce fight with reactionary children's writers and teachers who sought to tear away the children from the knowledge of the social realities of life, to educate them in the spirit of clericalism, apolitically, obedient to the bourgeoisie. Realistic Lithuanian children's literature development conditions are analyzed on the basis of archival documents and other sources from the beginning of the 20th century. ; Marksizmo – leninizmo mokymo apie dvi kultūras kiekvienoje nacionalinėje kultūroje dvasioje, straipsnyje analizuojami dviejų 20a. pradžios ideologinių krypčių Lietuvoje požiūriai į vaikų skaitymą. Klerikalinė buržuazija, sekusi paskui carizmą, skaitymui skirtose knygose propagavo religingumą, aklą paklusimą carui ir valdančiai klasei, leido klerikalistinę vaikišką literatūrą. Liberali buržuazija, išgąsdinta revoliucinio judėjimo augimo, buvo nusiteikusi prieš revoliuciją. Prie liberalios buržuazijos prisijungė dalis demokratų ir progresyvių inteligentų, kurie rūpinosi liaudies švietimu, aktyviai dalyvavo šalies kultūriniame gyvenime, savo darbe naudojo liberalią spaudą. Apie vaikų ugdymą ir vaikų literatūrą rašė G. Petkevičiūtė – Bitė, P. Mašiotas, J. Jablonskis, K. Vairas – Račkauskas, K. Skabeika ir kt. Revoliucingi social-demokratai (V. Mickevičius – Kapsukas, Z. Aleksa – Angarietis ir kt.) reikalavo panaikinti vaikų darbą, įvesti visų vaikų mokymą ir mokymo demokratizacijos. Išanalizavus socialinę ir politinę padėti 20 a. pradžios Lietuvoje, straipsnyje daroma išvada, kad pirmaujantys lietuvių autoriai tragišką vaikų padėtį kapitalistinėje santvarkoje vaizdavo veikiami nacionalinio išsivadavimo ir socialinės tautos kovos. Vaikų, engiamų ir išnaudojamų buržuazijos, gyvenimą vaizdavo J. Biliūnas, Žemaitė, Lazdynų Pelėda, L. Didžiulienė – Žmona, K. Jasiukaitis, V. Mickevičius – Kapsukas, J. Šepetys, J. Janonis, K. Stiklius, K. Lekeckas ir kt. Progresyvios idėjos atsispindėjo M. Pečkauskaitės – Šatrijos Raganos apsakyme "Į šviesą", geriausiuose K. Sakalausko – Vanagėlio, P. Mašioto, M. Grigonio apsakymuose vaikams. 20 a. pradžios lietuviškoje literatūroje įsitvirtino religinis pasaulio vaizdas, atsispindėjo kai kurie klasinės kovos momentai. Tai buvo aštrios kovos su reakcionistiškais vaikiškais rašytojais ir pedagogais, kurie siekė atplėšti vaikus nuo socialinės gyvenimo realybės pažinimo, auklėti juos klerikalizmo dvasia, apolitiškai, paklusniais buržuazijai, pradžia. Realistinės lietuvių vaikiškos literatūros raidos sąlygos analizuojamos remiantis 20 a. pradžios archyviniais dokumentais ir kitais šaltiniais.

The nineteenth century culminated in a wealth of scientific inventiveness which resulted in a complete and fundamental change in social life within the following fifty years. The more widespread use of telegraphy, the expansion of the telephone service, the increased application of electricity and the invention of the motor car, the sudden appearance and phenomenal development of the cinema, and finally the invention and speedy public utilisation of the aeroplane and the wireless have combined to obliterate (except in trivial instances such as its "naughtiness") appreciation of the atmosphere of the period in which motion pictures first appeared. In South Africa, a remarkable degree of self-reliance was practiced by the populations of comparatively isolated towns during the nineties. Despite the slowness of communication, the laboriousness of travel and the leisurely tempo of life in general, despite every adverse circumstance, people construed out or their immediate surroundings a cultural life far more enterprising than that produced by favourable modern conditions.

This collection of notes addresses issues for the Navajo Nation. The wording includes, promoting economic growth, dealing with unemployment, bettering living conditions, creating partnerships with businesses and encourages leaders in the Navajo Tribal Council to work for the people. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: Raymond Nakai, a Navajo Indian, was born in 1918 in Lukachukai, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation. Raymond Nakai is noted as being the first modern Navajo political leader serving as Chairman of the Navajo Nation from 1963-1971. As chairman, the issues most important during his tenure were self determination in Navajo Education, reservation unemployment, developing Navajo economy, further development of the tribal government and improving relations with the federal government and surrounding states. Nakai had much unprecedented success as Navajo Tribal Chairman: In 1967 the Navajo Nation Bill of Rights was created, in 1968 Navajo Community College opened being the first tribally controlled community college, the Tribal Scholarship Trust was developed, relations with off reservation natural resource companies began, he was supportive of religious freedom of the Native American Church on the Navajo Reservation. Raymond Nakai led an active personal and political life and was an innovative leader for the Navajo People. The Raymond Nakai Collection contains material documenting his activities as Chairman of the Navajo Nation from 1963 - 1971.

This collection of notes addresses the rights of the Navajo people to jobs, property and judicial protection. He also makes note of keeping the reservation free from alcohol and the need for social restoration. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: Raymond Nakai, a Navajo Indian, was born in 1918 in Lukachukai, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation. Raymond Nakai is noted as being the first modern Navajo political leader serving as Chairman of the Navajo Nation from 1963-1971. As chairman, the issues most important during his tenure were self determination in Navajo Education, reservation unemployment, developing Navajo economy, further development of the tribal government and improving relations with the federal government and surrounding states. Nakai had much unprecedented success as Navajo Tribal Chairman: In 1967 the Navajo Nation Bill of Rights was created, in 1968 Navajo Community College opened being the first tribally controlled community college, the Tribal Scholarship Trust was developed, relations with off reservation natural resource companies began, he was supportive of religious freedom of the Native American Church on the Navajo Reservation. Raymond Nakai led an active personal and political life and was an innovative leader for the Navajo People. The Raymond Nakai Collection contains material documenting his activities as Chairman of the Navajo Nation from 1963 - 1971.

The M. H. Ross Papers contain information pertaining to labor, politics, social issues of the twentieth century, coal mining and its resulting lifestyle, as well as photographs and audio materials. The collection is made up of five different accessions; L2001-05, which is contained in boxes one through 104, L2002-09 in boxes 106 through 120, L2006-16 in boxes 105 and 120, L2001-01 in boxes 120-121, and L2012-20 in boxes 122-125. The campaign materials consist of items from the 1940 and 1948 political campaigns in which Ross participated. These items include campaign cards, posters, speech transcripts, news clippings, rally materials, letters to voters, and fliers. Organizing and arbitration materials covers labor organizing events from "Operation Dixie" in Georgia, the furniture workers in North Carolina, and the Mine-Mill workers in the Western United States. Organizing materials include fliers, correspondence, news articles, radio transcripts, and some related photos. Arbitration files consist of agreements, decisions, and agreement booklets. The social and political research files cover a wide time period (1930's to the late 1970's/early 1980's). The topics include mainly the Ku Klux Klan, racism, Communism, Red Scare, red baiting, United States history, and literature. These files consist mostly of news and journal articles. Ross interacted with coal miners while doing work for the United Mine Workers Association (UMWA) and while working at the Fairmont Clinic in West Virginia. Included in these related files are books, news articles, journals, UMWA reports, and coal miner oral histories conducted by Ross. Tying in to all of the activities Ross participated in during his life were his research and manuscript files. He wrote numerous newspaper and journal articles on history and labor. Later, as he worked for the UMWA and at the Fairmont Clinic, he wrote more in-depth articles about coal miners, their lifestyle, and medical problems they faced (while the Southern Labor Archives has many of Ross's coal mining and lifestyle articles, it does not have any of his medical articles). Along with these articles are the research files Ross collected to write them, which consist of notes, books, and newspaper and journal articles. In additional to his professional career, Ross was adamant about documenting his and his wife's family history in the oral history format. Of particular interest are the recordings of his interviews with his wife's family - they were workers, musicians, and singers of labor and folk songs. Finally, in this collection are a number of photographs and slides, which include images of organizing, coal mining (from the late 19th through 20th centuries), and Appalachia. Of note is a small photo album from the 1930s which contains images from the Summer School for Workers, and more labor organizing. A few audio items are available as well, such as Ross political speeches and an oral history in which Ross was interviewed by his daughter, Jane Ross Davis in 1986. All photographic and audio-visual materials are at the end of their respective series. ; Myron Howard "Mike" Ross was born November 9, 1919 in New York City. He dropped out of school when he was seventeen and moved to Texas, where he worked on a farm. From 1936 until 1939, Ross worked in a bakery in North Carolina. In the summer of 1938, he attended the Southern School for Workers in Asheville, North Carolina. During the fall of 1938, Ross would attend the first Southern Conference on Human Welfare in Birmingham, Alabama. He would attend this conference again in 1940 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. From 1939 to 1940, Ross worked for the United Mine Workers Non-Partisan League in North Carolina, working under John L. Lewis. He was hired as a union organizer by the United Mine Workers of America, and sent to Saltville, Virginia and Rockwood, Tennessee. In 1940, Ross ran for a seat on city council on the People's Platform in Charlotte, North Carolina. During this time, he also married Anne "Buddie" West of Kennesaw, Georgia. From 1941 until 1945, Ross served as an infantryman for the United States Army. He sustained injuries near the Battle of the Bulge in the winter of 1944. From 1945 until 1949, Ross worked for the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, then part of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), as a union organizer. He was sent to Macon, Georgia, Savannah, Georgia and to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he worked with the United Furniture Workers Union. He began handling arbitration for the unions. In 1948, Ross ran for United States Congress on the Progressive Party ticket in North Carolina. He also served as the secretary for the North Carolina Progressive Party. Ross attended the University of North Carolina law school from 1949 to 1952. He graduated with honors but was denied the bar on the grounds of "character." From 1952 until 1955, he worked for the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers as a union organizer, first in New Mexico (potash mines) and then in Arizona (copper mines). From 1955 to 1957, Ross attended the Columbia University School of Public Health. He worked for the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund from 1957 to 1958, where he represented the union in expenditure of health care for mining workers. By 1958, Ross began plans for what would become the Fairmont Clinic, a prepaid group practice in Fairmont, West Virginia, which had the mission of providing high quality medical care for miners and their families. From 1958 until 1978, Ross served as administrator of the Fairmont Clinic. As a result of this work, Ross began researching coal mining, especially coal mining lifestyle, heritage and history of coal mining and disasters. He would interview over one hundred miners (coal miners). Eventually, Ross began writing a manuscript about the history of coal mining. Working for the Rural Practice Program of the University of North Carolina from 1980 until 1987, Ross taught in the medical school. M. H. Ross died on January 31, 1987 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. ; Digitization of the M. H. Ross Papers was funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.