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Appalachian Volunteers Oral History Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0040 SAA 039
Scope and Contents
The collection is comprised of sixteen audio recordings and unedited transcripts (of six of the interviews) with former Appalachian Volunteer workers who were assigned to West Virginia, between 1964 and 1967, and then settled in the area after their service ended.These interviews were recorded by Marie Tyler McGraw during the summer of 1982 with the support of an Appalachian Studies Fellowship from the Berea College Appalachian Center. McGraw's article based on this research...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 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
Jo Zingg / Jeanette Knowles Appalachian Volunteers Oral History Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0166 SAA 168
Abstract
The project was initiated by Jo Crockett Zingg with the purpose of documenting key figures in the Appalachian Volunteers organization who had not been interviewed as part of previous oral history efforts. Zingg recorded eleven of the interviews over an approximate two year period, 2008 - 2010. Former AV worker Jeanette Knowles continued the project after Jo Zingg's death in 2012. Additional interviews were recorded at various times by historian Tom Kiffmeyer, Women's History scholar Jesse...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 2008-2015
National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0016 SAA 015
Abstract
President Lyndon B. Johnson formed the National Advisory Commission on the Rural Poverty, under Executive Order Number 11306, in the 1960s to counsel him and develop recommendations concerning legislative actions to be taken as a part of his administration’s War on Poverty. This particular commission was charged with the responsibility of evaluating one of the most difficult social problems in the United States—rural poverty.
The Commission...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1966-1967
Phil Primack Photographs and Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0271
Abstract
During his career as a journalist Phil Primack covered public policy, politics, and the economy for numerous news outlets, including The New York Times, the Boston Globe, Commonwealth, Boston, and Columbia Journalism Review. The Phil Primack Collection contains numerous photographs, most of them taken while Primack worked as a...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1964-2000