1. "TOIL AND HUNGER" Poems, Paperback. Published by Hagglund Press, San Benito, TX, 1940, . 90p., illustrated with linocuts and drawings by various artists.  

From the poem: 

The slow, groaning anger

Of the South-

Born of toil and hunger,

Tearing at a million hearts,

Taken in with bulldog gravy

Or pinto beans,

Sucked up with coal dust or lint

Into the belly of the South,

The great, gaunt belly

Of a smouldering South!

2. "Freedom On The Mountains". (Excerpts From A Book Manuscript On Southern Mountain History)

By Don West "Freedom on the Mountain" - Huntington, W.Va. : Appalachian Movement Press, 1973 30 p. ; 22 cm.

3. "Southern Mountain Folk Tradition & the Folksong "Stars" Syndrome" by Don West - This is an 18 page pamphlet with stapled binding and no publishing date. The covers are lightly soiled. 

"Toil and Hunger" is one of a southern civil rights and Appalachian heritage poet and author. . The two 1970's phamplets are based on the times that Don West taught in the West Virginia mountains working with others to begin the Appalachian Movement Press.and the Appalachian South Folklife Center.

Who was Don West:

Born in 1906 in Devil’s Hollow, near Ellijay in Gilmer County, Donald L. West grew to young adulthood in the north Georgia mountains. The eldest son of a farmer, he took pride in the independent spirit that had made his forebears nonconformists who opposed slavery in the antebellum years. This heritage of independence expressed itself in West’s career, during which he often found himself at odds with the folkways and beliefs of the communities in which he lived and worked. Throughout his life he remained committed to a progressive view of ethnic and racial harmony, which linked him with his personal family history.