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Alan J. Crain Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0113 SAA 113
Abstract
A sociologist by training, Alan J. Crain taught at Allegheny College in western Pennsylvania. During the 1970s, he developed an ongoing interest in southeastern Kentucky through the Appalachian Semester at Union College in Barbourville. This was a summer-long program that introduced students to the culture and traditions of Knox County and the surrounding area. Over a period of about ten years he made extended visits to Knox County, at times living in homes of residents of the Trosper...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1975-1982
Council of the Southern Mountains Oral History Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0110 SAA 110
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of recorded interviews with transcripts relating to the work of the Council of the Southern Mountains (CSM) during the period 1970-1989. Interviewees include the former CSM executive director, other staff, board members, and elected officers.Listen To interview recordings and / or read transcripts
The interviews...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 2004-2005
Harlan County Struggle collection
Collection
Identifier: BCA 0060 SAA 060
Abstract
Materials regarding Harlan County, Kentucky, and the ongoing struggle that occurred for over forty years following the big coal boom of the early 1900s.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1931-1983