Appalachian Religion Survey Records 1931-1933.

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Appalachian Religion Survey Records 1931-1933.

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These are survey data, related narratives, reference information, newspaper clippings, maps, photographs, and correspondence relating to an Appalachian regional religion survey undertaken by the Institute of Social and Religious Research l931-l933. Included are data from approximately 1000 churches and missions in seventeen counties in the states of West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, and Kentucky.

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Berea College, Hutchins Library

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Berea College, Hutchins Library

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United States. Department of Agriculture

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The United States Department of Agriculture was established in 1862 by President Abraham Lincoln and was elevated to a Cabinet level organization by President Grover Cleveland in 1889. The Department of Agriculture assists farmers and producers of food as well as creating policies and programs related to food distribution and nutrition information. The United States Department of Agriculture controls a number of regional offices through out the continential United States and its territories....

United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics

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Hooker, Elizabeth R. (Elizabeth Robbins), 1872-1960

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Institute of Social and Religious Research

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The survey was conducted in connection with a broader economic and social study conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Survey results were published in Religion in the Highlands: Native Churches and Missionary Enterprises in the Southern Appalachians (1933) by Elizabeth R. Hooker, and Economic and Social Problems and Conditions of the Southern Appalachians by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (1935). From the description of Appalachian Religion Survey Records 1931-1933. (B...