Appalachian Volunteers Oral History Collection 1982.

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Appalachian Volunteers Oral History Collection 1982.

Sixteen audio recordings and transcripts of interviews with former Appalachian Volunteer workers who were assigned to West Virginia, 1964-1967 and then settled there after their service ended.

0.4 linear ft. (1 mss box)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7646060

Berea College, Hutchins Library

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Catape, Beth.

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Monroe, Jeffrey D., 1968-

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Yarrow, Ruth

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Biesmyer, David.

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Cohen, Naomi Weintraub.

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Crandal, Penny.

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Cooper, Brooke.

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Council of the Southern Mountains

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The Council of the Southern Mountains was established as the result of fact-finding efforts by John C. and Olive Dame Campbell during the early 1900s. The organization's first annual meeting was held in 1912. Its original purpose was to provide a means of information sharing and cooperation among Appalachian social services, church, and school workers. Olive Campbell followed her husband as Council Executive Secretary, serving from 1919 to 1928. Others in that position include Helen Dingman, 192...

Thibault, James Dean, 1956-

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Ogle, Milton.

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McGraw, Marie Tyler.

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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 entitled "Staying On: Poverty Warriors in West Virginia After Fifteen Years" appears in the anthology, Reshaping the Image of Appalachia. From the description of Appalachian Volunteers Oral History Collection 1982. (Berea College). WorldCat record id: 51961141 ...

Anderson, Colleen, 1950-

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Yarrow, Doug.

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Kinderman, Gibbs,

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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...

Robinson, Craig, 1971-

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Kline, Mike.

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Appalachian Volunteers.

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