"Voices from the sixties" oral history collection [sound recording] : 1985-1987.

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"Voices from the sixties" oral history collection [sound recording] : 1985-1987.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/426044132

Thirty-three interviews of Kentucky and West Virginia community organizers, politicians, journalists, and scholars relative to federal government funded anti-poverty programs in the 1960s and 1970s. The interviews were recorded by Gibbs Kinderman, in connection with the production of four public radio documentaries. The documentary titles are "Appalachian Volunteers," "Maximum Feasible Participation," "Strip Mining," and "Fair Elections," copies of which are also included in the collection.

90 sound cassettes (60 min.) [original recordings and listening copies].

Berea College, Hutchins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7451002

Berea College, Hutchins Library

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Perry, Huey.

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Volunteers in Service to America

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Walton, Noel Snuffer.

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Monroe, Jeffrey D., 1968-

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Schecter, Claudia.

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Ogle, Milton.

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Kline, Michael

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The Appalachian Volunteers (AV) originated in 1964 when Milton Ogle, a staff member with the Council of the Southern Mountains (CSM), began organizing college students from Berea and other colleges in the region to engage in repair and enrichment projects for substandard schools in eastern Kentucky. They obtained a federal grant that enabled Ogle to hire an assistant, Gibbs Kinderman, and additional staff, expand the program and work with the Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA). However, wh...

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Easterling Kobak, Sue Ella.

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Shrewsbury, Hershel.

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