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
job discrimination in
Kennedy winter relief program for
outreach programs
PARC proposals for
poor quality of
preschool
Program 60 and
Reagan budget cuts and
relocation of, to larger towns
school consolidation
Edwards, James
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
election fraud
electricity, coal-generated
Ellington, Buford
Emory and Henry College
emphysema
Employment Act (1946)
energy crisis (1970s)
energy dependence
energy policy
coal-based
escalating demand and
TVA cheap-power policy
entitlement programs, federal spending on
environmentalism
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
environmental quality
grassroots activism for
mountaintop removal and
persisting degradation of
strip mining and
tourism and
TVA cheap-power policy and See also floods; mountaintop removal mining; strip mining
environmental regulations, lax enforcement of
Episcopalians
Ernst, Harry
Esser, George
EZ (rural empowerment zone) program
fair elections campaign
faith-based activist organizations
faith-based antipoverty programs
Farmington (W.Va.)
farms
average size of
flood control dams as threat to
industrial collapse and return to (1920s)
preindustrial, family and See also agriculture
fast-food restaurants
Fayette County (W.Va.)
Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act (1969)
Federal Development Planning Committee for Appalachia
federalism, new
flood control
floods
1957
1963
1972
1977
2000
2001
absentee land ownership and
causes of
Pikeville cut-through project and
Floyd County (Ky.)
food relief
food stamps
Ford, Gerald
Ford, Thomas
Ford Foundation
Gray Areas Program
Rural Community College Initiative
Forest Industries Council
Franklin, Ben
Freeman, Orville
Fund for Investigative Journalism
furniture manufacturing
Gadsden (Ala.)
Galbraith, John Kenneth
Garrard County (Ky.)
gated communities
Gatlinburg (Tenn.)
Gaventa, John
gender discrimination
Georgia
GI Bill
Gibson, Dan
Gibson, Larry
Glenmary Sisters
globalization
global warming
God Can Move Mountains (Beiting)
golf courses
Gordon, Kermit
Gorman, William D.
government intervention
Johnson’s belief in
as poverty solution
; WWII economy and
grassroots organizations See also activism, grassroots Appalachian; specific organization
Gray Areas Program
Great Society See also Appalachian Regional Commission; Economic Opportunity Act (1964); Volunteers in Service to America; War on Poverty; War on Poverty, in Appalachia; specific program
Green, Edith
Green amendment
Greenville (S.C.)
Grossman, David
growth
balanced
development vs.
mixed legacy of
as modern value
scientific management of
growth-based development
balanced
collapse of (1920s)
consequences of
Reagan and
societal rejection of See also Appalachian Regional Commission
“growth center” strategy
growth theory economics
Hackett, David
Hager, Granny
Hall, Eula
Hambley, William
Hamilton (Ohio)
Hamilton, James
Hammonds, Charlie
handcraft production
Handmade in America
“Happy Pappy” program
Harlan County (Ky.)
farm population decline in
grassroots activism in
growth center in
labor unrest in
manufacturing recruitment in
mining employment decline in
political corruption in
strip mining in
student service-learning projects in
transportation corridors and
Harlan County (Ky.) Concerned Citizens against Toxic Waste
Harper’s magazine
Harriman, Averill
Harrington, Michael
Harrison, Albertis
Hart, John Frazer
Hartford (Tenn.)
Hawkeye (community newsletter)
Haywood County (N.C.)
Hazard (Ky.)
ARC development efforts in
Clinton visit to
floods in
grassroots activism in
as growth center
mining site development at
Head Start
health care
ARC and
CAAs and
college programs for
grassroots activism for
“growth center” strategy and
improvements in, unequal distribution of
PARC proposals for
post-WWII improvements in
Program 60 and
Reagan budget cuts and
relocation of, to larger towns
War on Poverty and
health insurance, inadequate
health professionals, recruitment of
heart disease
Hechler, Ken
Heller, Walter
as Council of Economic Advisors chair
meetings with Johnson
heritage tourism
Highlander Research and Education Center
high-tech economy
highwalls
Highway 979 Community Action Council
highways
ARC appropriations for
ARC-funded
beautification of
coal industry and
as Eastern Kentucky Regional Planning Commission priority
“growth center” strategy and
interstate highway system
local access
PARC proposals for
WPA improvements in See also Appalachian Development Highway System
“hillbillies”
Hindman (Ky.)
hippie culture
Hispanics
Hodges, Luther
Hoffman, Richard
Hollings, Ernest
hospitals
Hot Springs Health Program
housing
absentee land ownership and
federal programs underutilized
grassroots activism for
improvements in
Kennedy winter relief program for
modern developments
poor quality of
Program 60 and
student service-learning projects
War on Poverty and
Howell, Jeff Davis
Howell, Treva Turner
human capital theory
Human/Economic Appalachian Development Corporation
human rights
Humphrey, Hubert
Huntington (W.Va.)
Huntsville (Ala.)
Hyden (Ky.)
hydroelectric dams
individualism
industrialization
Appalachian problems as result of
consequences of
impact of WWII mobilization on
political corruption and See also manufacturing
industrial parks
Inez (Ky.)
infant mortality rates
inflation
infrastructure
Appalachian need for
ARC and
as Eastern Kentucky Regional Planning Commission priority
EZ investments in
“growth center” strategy and
PARC proposals for
WWII improvements in See also highways
inner-city riots
Interstate 64
Interstate 75
Interstate 77
interstate highway system
Jackson County (Ky.)
Jackson County High School (Tyner, Ky.)
Jaycees
Job Corps
job training
ARA programs
ARC and
EZ investments in
gender discrimination in
improvements in
Lexington resolution and
missionary programs for
PARC proposals for
Program 60 and
Reagan budget cuts and
for unemployed miners
War on Poverty and
women in
Johnson, Lyndon B.
Appalachian visit of
ARDA signed into law by (1965)
assumes presidency (1963)
community action as viewed by
electoral campaign (1964)
Great Society agenda of (see also War on Poverty)
Kennedy antipoverty plans and
Kennedy Appalachian plans and
“poverty trips” of
Johnson City (Tenn.)
juvenile delinquency
Kanawha Valley (W.Va.)
Kayford Mountain (W.Va.)
Kefauver, Estes
Kelley, Richard
Kennedy, John F.
academic influences on
antipoverty plans of
Appalachian plans of
Appalachian winter relief program of
assassination of (1963)
domestic agenda of
economic conditions under
economic growth efforts of
elected president (1960)
as fiscal conservative
PARC established by (see also President’s Appalachian Regional Commission)
presidential primary campaign of
President’s Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime established by (1961)
Task Force on Area Redevelopment
Kennedy, Robert F.
Kentuckians for the Commonwealth (KFTC)
Kentucky
bureaucratic/funding barriers in
CSM petition for interstate commission
“Happy Pappy” program in
manufacturing growth in
tax structure inequities in See also Kentucky, eastern
Kentucky, eastern
annual per capita income in (1960)
ARC impact on
AV program in
&n
bsp; CAAs in
civic leadership in
Clinton visit to
distressed counties in
education in
farm population decline in
floods in
grassroots activism in
grassroots organizations in
growth centers in
health disparities in
housing quality in
impact of coal industry on
Johnson visit to
Kennedy winter relief program for
labor unrest in
manufacturing growth in
manufacturing recruitment in
mine closings in
mineral rights in
mining disasters in
mining employment decline in
missionary antipoverty programs in
out-migration from
political corruption in
population decline in
poverty in
prescription drug abuse in
private development efforts in
Program 60 in
public/private development efforts in
red-baiting in
state-initiated development efforts in
strip mining in
tax structure inequities in
transportation corridors in
truck mines in
UMWA hospitals in
unemployment in
university outreach programs in
Kentucky Agricultural and Industrial Development Board
Kentucky Appalachian Council
Kentucky Black Lung Association
Kentucky Conservation Council
Kentucky Department of Economic Development
Action Plan for Eastern Kentucky
Kentucky Department of Highways
Kentucky Fair Tax Coalition (KFTC)
Kentucky General Assembly
Kentucky Geological Survey
Kentucky Highlands Investment Corporation (KHIC)
EZ Venture Fund
Kentucky Junior Chamber of Commerce (Jaycees)
Kentucky Un-American Activities Committee (KUAC)
Keynesian economics
KFTC. See Kentuckians for the Commonwealth; Kentucky Fair Tax Coalition
Kinderman, Gibbs
kinship ties
loss of
mountain farms and
out-migration patterns and
Knott County (Ky.)
ALCOR program in
anti–strip mining sabotage efforts in
corruption scandals in
grassroots activism in
student service-learning projects in
Knox County (Ky.)
Knox County (Ky.) Economic Opportunity Council
Knoxville (Tenn.)
Knoxville News-Sentinel
Kravitz, Sanford
Kreps, Juanita
labor movement
labor unions See also United Mine Workers of America
labor unrest. See strikes
Lampman, Robert
land, Appalachian relationship with
land abuse
land conservation
land development, political corruption and
Land Economics (journal)
landfills
landowner rights
land ownership
conflicts over
strip mining and
taxes and
land ownership, absentee
agricultural impact of
ARC study of
“broad form” deeds and
as cause of poverty
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