Programs Activities and Organizations

This series contains the surviving records of the several Commissions of the CSM: Aging, Appalachian Regional Development, Arts and Humanities, Black Appalachians, Community Action, Education, Health, Natural Resources, Poor People’s Self-Help, Research, Recreation, Welfare, Women’s, and Youth (see Series 9 for Urban Affairs). The records consist mainly of correspondence, minutes, reference materials, and research information relating to each Commission. Additional booklets, pamphlets, and information related to other organizations working with the commission or within the same social issue may be found among these materials as well. The series is arranged alphabetically by Commission name, and then organized alphabetically by subject within each commission. The administrative records of each commission begin each section and some larger commissions contain sub-series. References to these commissions can also be found in other sections of the collection, particularly Series 2: General Correspondence. (Archivist’s NOTE: A large amount of additional material was added to this series during the re-processing and integration of materials in 2007. Although this substantially increased the volume of materials related to each commission and added new commissions to the holdings, this series is still considered incomplete in so far as the surviving records do not reflect the entire scope or fullness of activities of each commission within the Council’s structure. For example, few records of the Women’s Commission or Black Appalachian Commission survived to be included here).