Uneven Ground (55 page)

reorganization of

strategic planning of

Appalachian Regional Development Act (ARDA; 1964)

Appalachian Research and Defense Fund

Appalachian South Folklife Center

Appalachian State University

Appalachian Studies Conference

Appalachian studies movement

Appalachian Volunteers (AV)

anti–strip mining activism of

KUAC red-baiting and

local leadership roles of

local political backlash against

mountain culture and

OEO funding terminated for

organizing efforts of

radicalization of

split from CSM

training sessions

union reform and

VISTA volunteers trained by

Appalachian Volunteers Inc.

Appalachia—Science in the Public Interest (ASPI)

ARC.
See
Appalachian Regional Commission

ARC Accountability Project

Arch Coal

Area Redevelopment Act (1959)

Area Redevelopment Act (1961)

Area Redevelopment Administration (ARA)

Army Corps of Engineers

Arnett, Alvin

Arnett, Douglas

Arnow, Harriette

artist colonies

Ashe County (N.C.), farm population decline in

Asheville (N.C.)

Ashland (Ky.), manufacturing growth in

Association of Disabled Miners and Widows

asthma

A. T. Massey Coal Company

Atomic Energy Commission

automobiles

AV.
See
Appalachian Volunteers

Ayer, Perley F.

“back to the landers”

Bailey, Benny Ray

balanced growth

Baltimore (Md.), Appalachian out-migration to

Bank, Richard

Bank of America

Baptists

Barron, William

beautification projects

Beckley (W.Va.)

Begley, Joe

Beiting, Ralph

Bellah, Robert

Bell County (Ky.)

Berea (Ky.)

Berea College (Berea, Ky.)

Berry, Wendell

Beth-Elkhorn Corporation

Bethlehem Steel

Bevill, Tom

Bickford, James

Bigart, Homer

Big Sandy Community Action Program

Big Sandy River

Birmingham (Ala.)

Bituminous Coal Operators' Association

Black Lung Association (BLA)

Black Lung Benefits Act (1972)

black lung disease

black lung movement

Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League

Blue Ridge Paper Products

Blue Ridge Parkway

Bobbie Sue letter

Boone, Richard

Boone County (W.Va.)

Boswell, Harry

Boyle, Tony

Braden, Anne

Braden, Carl

branch plant economies

branch plants, recruitment of

Branscome, James

Bray, Howard

Breathitt, Edward (“Ned”)

Breathitt County (Ky.)

Brethren

Bristol (Va./Tenn.)

“broad form” deeds

Brooks, Rufus

Brookside Mine (Harlan County, Ky.)

Brown, Fred

Brown, James

Brown, John Y.

brown lung disease

Bruner Foundation

Buchanan County (Va.), strip mining in

Buff, Isadore E.

Buffalo Creek (W.Va.) disaster (1972)

Buffalo Mining Company

Bush, George W.

Byrd, Robert

CAAs.
See
community action agencies

Campbell County (Tenn.)

cancer

Canton (Ohio), Appalachian out-migration to

CAP.
See
Christian Appalachian Project

Caperton Coal Company

capitalism, American

cardiovascular disease

Carroll, Julian

Carson, Rachel

Carter, Jimmy

Carter County (Tenn.)

Catholic Bishops of Appalachia, pastoral letter of (1975)

Catholic Church

Caudill, Harry

anti–strip mining activism of

on Appalachia as oppressed region

as Appalachian spokesperson

on ARA

ARC grant to

on ARDA

on black lung compensation

congressional testimony of

PARC report and

southern mountain authority advocated by

on strip-mining effects

on welfare dependence

Weller foreword by

Center for Appalachian Studies and Development

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Champion Paper Company

Chandler, A. B. (“Happy”)

Charleston (W.Va.)

Chicago (Ill.)

Appalachian out-migration to

as community action model

child care services

child development programs

child poverty

Children of Sanchez, The
(Lewis)

Chinitz, Benjamin

Christian Appalachian Project (CAP)

Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)

church-based activist organizations

church-based antipoverty programs

Church of the Brethren Appalachian Caucus

Cincinnati (Ohio), Appalachian out-migration to

Cirillo, Marie

citizen-activist networks

Citizens Against Strip Mining

Citizens Coal Council

Citizens for Social and Economic Justice

Citizens' Handbook on the ARC, A
(ARC Accountability Project)

civic leadership

civic participation

Civil Rights Act (1964)

civil rights movement

Claiborne County (Tenn.)

Clark, Michael

class warfare

Clay County (Ky.)

Clean Air Act (1970)

clean coal technologies

Clean Water Act (1977)

Clear Creek Valley (Ky.)

Clear Fork Valley (Ky.)

Clement, Frank

Cleveland (Ohio), Appalachian out-migration to

Clinch Valley College

Clinton, Bill

Clinton County (Ky.)

coal camps

antipoverty volunteers in

churches in

conditions in

“growth center” strategy and

post-WWII economy and

WPA roads reaching

WWII industrial mobilization and

Coal Employment Project

coal impoundments

coal industry

absentee ownership of

agricultural impact of

AV criticism of

clean coal technologies

economic leakage from

employment decline in

environmental costs of

gender discrimination in

grassroots activism against

health effects of

impact of WWII mobilization on

labor unions in (
see
United Mine Workers of America)

labor unrest in

mechanization of

national energy policy and

outside ownership of

PARC report and

political corruption and

political influence of

post-WWII decline of

recovery of (1970s)

regulation of

social costs of

tax structure inequities and

transportation corridors and

truck mines

TVA cheap-power policy and

wage agreement in (1950)

women employed in
See also
mountaintop removal mining; strip mining

Coalition on Appalachian Substance Abuse Policy

coal mine health/safety

coal severance tax

Cocke County (Tenn.)

Cohen, Naomi Weintraub

cold war

colleges

antipoverty programs of

Appalachian studies at

regional disparities in

Collett, Jean

Collins, Robert

Combs, Bert T.

antipoverty recommendations endorsed by

at ARDA signing

Conference of Appalachian Governors hosted by (1960)

as Council of Appalachian Governors chair

meetings with Johnson

on PARC

strip mine control and

UMWA strike (1962) and

Combs, Ollie

Commentary
magazine

Commission on Religion in Appalachia

community action

as antipoverty strategy

as Appalachian War on Poverty focus

as common War on Poverty theme

Johnson's view of

in missionary antipoverty programs

sociological models for

community action agencies (CAAs)

culture of poverty influence on

elite control of

establishment of

grassroots activism against

maximum feasible participation of poor in

service orientation of

training sessions

unemployed miners' committee becomes

urban, controversy surrounding

community arts programs

community colleges

community development strategies

community organizations

commuting

Concerned Citizens for Social and Economic Justice

Concord College

Conference of Appalachian Governors
See also
Council of Appalachian Governors

Consol Energy

Consolidation Coal Company

consumer culture

in Appalachia

Appalachian out-migrants and

economic inequality and

emergence of

environmental activism and

ex-poverty warriors' rejection of

farm population decline and

as growth goal

growth theory economics and

in modern Appalachia

post-WWII emergence of

War on Poverty and

consumer protection

Conway, Jack

Cooper, John Sherman

Corbin (Ky.)

corporate greed/irresponsibility

environmental disasters caused by

flooding caused by

mining disasters caused by

persistence of

poverty caused by

corporations

accountability failures of

Appalachian land owned by

radical religious criticism of
See also
coal industry; land ownership, absentee; logging industry; mountaintop removal mining; strip mining;
specific corporation

corruption.
See
political corruption

Council of Appalachian Governors

Council of Appalachian Women

Council of Economic Advisors

Council of the Southern Mountains (CSM)

antipoverty programs of

Appalachian out-migrant workshops of

AVs established by

AV split from

founding of

local reform institutions connected with

missionary antipoverty programs and

OEO grants received by

philosophy of

radicalization of

regional activism coordinated by

regional commission proposed by

service orientation of

strip mining opposed by

Washington (D.C.) office of

Yesterday's People
endorsed by

counterculture

county schools, consolidation of

Covington (Ky.), Catholic Diocese of

Crabtree, Paul

Cratis Williams Symposium

credit unions

CSM.
See
Council of the Southern Mountains

culture of poverty theory

Cumberland (Md.)

Cumberland Plateau

Cumberland Valley Community Action Agency

dams

“gob pile”

grassroots activism against

Daniel Boone Parkway

Dayton (Ohio), Appalachian out-migration to

Dead Pigeon River Council

Declaration for Action Regarding the Appalachian Region (1960)

deforestation

Democratic National Committee

depressed areas legislation

Depression

Detroit (Mich.), Appalachian out-migration to

development

growth vs.
See also
growth-based development

diabetes

diaspora.
See
out-migration

disability assistance

Dollmaker, The
(Arnow)

Douglas, Paul

Douglas-Payne Bill (1959)

downtown improvement

Drake, Charles

drug dependence

drug trafficking

Duscha, Julius

Easterling, Edith

Eastern Kentucky Flood Rehabilitation Study

Eastern Kentucky PRIDE

Eastern Kentucky Regional Development Council

Eastern Kentucky Regional Planning Commission

Eastern Kentucky Resource Development Project

Eastern Kentucky Social Club

Eastern Kentucky Welfare Rights Organization

East Kentucky Housing Corporation

economic development, as antipoverty strategy

economic development commissions

economic diversification

economic inequality

economic leakage

from absentee landownership

from coal mining

impact on local public services

manufacturing recruitment policies and

persistence of

from tourist developments

Economic Opportunity Act (1964)

ARDA and

ideological/political conception of

legislative components of

objectives of

passage of (1964)

public support for

sent to Congress (1964)

economy, Appalachian

balanced growth and

coal industry restructuring and

expansion of, as ARC goal

global/national markets tied to

“growth center” theory and

impact of WWII mobilization on

inequality

manufacturing recruitment

Reagan budget cuts and

regional growth centers and

service-oriented

shortsightedness in

transportation corridors and
See also
coal industry; low-wage employment; mountaintop removal mining; poverty; strip mining; unemployment

ecotourism

Edgar Stern Family Fund

education

as antipoverty strategy

of Appalachian out-migrants

ARC and

civic leadership and

federal aid for

“growth center” strategy and

health disparities and

higher

improvements in

improvements in, unequal distribution of