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by Ronald D. Eller


  consequences of

  economic leakage from

  grassroots activism against

  persistence of

  Reagan administration and

  scholarship on

  land reclamation, following strip mining

  land use

  Laslett, Peter

  Latinos

  lawyers, local, and political corruption

  Lees College

  legal aid services

  Leibig, Anne

  Leslie County (Ky.)

  Letcher County (Ky.)

  Levin, Melvin

  Lewis, John L. See also United Mine Workers of America

  Lewis, Oscar

  Lexington (Ky.)

  Lexington (Ky.) Garden Club

  Lexington Herald-Leader

  liberation theology

  life expectancy

  Lincoln, Evelyn

  Lippmann, Walter

  literacy

  littering

  Lloyd, Alice

  Lloyd, B.

  loans, venture capital

  Logan County (W.Va.)

  logging industry

  agricultural impact of

  clear-cutting practices of

  decline of

  environmental costs of

  impact of WWII mobilization on

  mountaintop removal and

  outside ownership of

  PARC report and

  political corruption and

  sustainability in

  London (Ky.)

  longwall machines

  Look magazine

  Louisville Courier-Journal

  Love, George H.

  low-wage employment

  dependence/powerlessness reinforced by

  manufacturing recruitment and

  persistence of

  in service economy

  urbanization and

  women and

  Luebke, B. H.

  lung cancer

  Lutherans

  MacDonald, Dwight

  Madison County (Ky.)

  Madison County (N.C.)

  Madison County (N.C.) Opportunity Corporation

  Maggard, Sally

  manpower programs

  manufacturing

  Appalachian recruitment of

  decline of

  offshoring of

  post-WWII growth of

  Marshall Plan

  Marshall University

  Mars Hill College

  Martin County (Ky.)

  Maryland

  Maryland Department of Economic Development

  Massey Energy

  maternal death rates

  McClellan, John

  McDermott, Ed

  McDowell County (W.Va.)

  McGeorge, Levi

  McKee (Ky.)

  McSurely, Alan

  McSurely, Margaret

  Medicaid

  medical helicopters

  Medicare

  Mennonites

  Methodists

  middle class

  Appalachian movement and

  Appalachian out-migration and

  Appalachian poverty and

  AVs and

  environmental efforts of

  Great Society aimed at

  Great Society opposed by

  income inequality and

  institutions of, in Appalachia

  in mountain county seats

  in post-WWII economy

  values, War on Poverty and acculturation to

  Middlesboro (Ky.)

  Middlesboro (Ky.) Tanning Company

  Mid-South Electronics

  migration. See out-migration

  Miller, Arnold Ray

  mill towns

  mineral rights

  mineral taxes

  Miners for Democracy (MFD)

  Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers (Eller)

  Mine Safety and Health Administration

  Mingo County (W.Va.)

  mining. See coal industry; mountaintop removal mining; strip mining

  mining camps

  missionary antipoverty programs

  mission churches

  Mississippi Delta Commission

  Missouri, Appalachian out-migration to

  Mitchell, George

  Moore, Arch

  Morehead State University

  motels

  Mountain Life and Work (CSM magazine)

  mountain middle class

  mountain professional class

  mountaintop removal mining

  emergence of

  environmental costs of

  grassroots activism against

  land development promised by

  legal loophole allowing

  regulation of

  social costs of

  Moynihan, Daniel Patrick

  mudslides

  Mulloy, Joe

  Mulloy, Karen

  multinational energy conglomerates, Appalachian land owned by

  National Bituminous Coal Wage Agreement (1950)

  National Coalition Against Strip Mining

  National Conference of Mayors (1965)

  National Conference on Strip Mining (Middlesboro, Ky.; 1972)

  National Council of Churches

  National Endowment for the Arts

  National Endowment for the Humanities

  national forests, establishment of

  National Health Services Corps

  National Independent Coal Operators’ Association

  National Public Radio

  National Rural Health Initiative

  National Youth Administration

  natural gas, as coal competition

  Neighborhood Youth Corps

  neo-Appalachians

  New Deal See also specific program

  New Frontier

  Newman, Monroe

  New Opportunity School for Women

  New Republic

  New River Bridge

  New River Gorge project

  New Yorker

  New York Times

  Nicholas County (W.Va.)

  Night Comes to the Cumberlands (Caudill)

  Nixon, Richard M.

  nonprofit organizations, venture capital loans offered by

  North Carolina

  ARA benefits lacking in

  CAAs in

  college antipoverty programs in

  CSM petition for interstate commission

  farm population decline in

  grassroots activism in

  housing quality in

  manufacturing recruitment in

  out-migration from

  poverty in

  small business development in

  state-initiated development efforts in

  WWII industrial mobilization in

  North Carolina Fund

  Northern Coal Operators’ Association

  nuclear dump sites

  Nunn, Louis

  nutrition, PARC proposals for

  Oak Ridge (Tenn.), uranium enrichment plant at

  obesity

  Ogle, Milton

  Ohio

  added to ARDA jurisdiction

  Appalachian out-migration to

  ARA benefits lacking in

  grassroots activism in

  Ohio River, bridge collapse over (1967)

  Ohio University

  Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition

  oil

  as coal competition

  foreign, U.S. dependence on

  Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)

  Other America, The (Harrington)

  outdoor recreation

  out-migration

  Appalachian history of

  causes of

  consequences of, in Appalachia

  discrimination faced during

  kinship ties and

  low-wage economy and

  post-WWII

  as poverty solution

  press coverage of />
  urban adjustment during

  urban destinations

  during WWII

  Owsley County (Ky.)

  OxyContin

  Paducah (Ky.), uranium enrichment plant at

  Paintsville (Ky.)

  PARC. See President’s Appalachian Regional Commission

  Parkersburg (W.Va.)

  pasture improvement

  patronage jobs

  Patton, Paul

  PCBs

  Peabody Energy

  Peace Corps

  Pennington, Ray

  Pennsylvania

  People’s Appalachian Research Collective

  Perkins, Carl

  Perroux, François

  Perry, Huey

  Perry County (Ky.)

  pesticide contamination

  Peterson, Bill

  Phantis Corporation

  Pigeon Forge (Tenn.)

  Pigeon River

  Pike County (Ky.)

  Pikeville (Ky.)

  Pikeville College (Pikeville, Ky.)

  Pittsburgh (Pa.)

  Pittston Coal Company

  Pizzano, Winifred

  political corruption

  AVs and

  as barrier to structural change

  CAAs and

  coal industry and

  grassroots activism against

  OEO funds and

  persistence of

  volunteer radicalization and

  pollution

  Poor Bottom (Ky.)

  Potter, David

  Pound (Va.), floods in

  poverty

  academic studies of

  Appalachian out-migration and

  ARC and

  causes of, consensus lacking on

  child

  corporate greed and

  culture of poverty theory

  “growth center” strategy and

  health disparities and

  national misunderstanding of

  1960s American view of

  patterns of

  persistence of

  political corruption and

  post-WWII affluence vs.

  press coverage of

  Reagan budget cuts and

  reductions in

  structural inequities and See also antipoverty programs; War on Poverty; War on Poverty, in Appalachia

  power plants, coal-fired

  Presbyterians

  prescription drug culture

  President’s Appalachian Regional Commission (PARC)

  academic consultants to

  ARDA and

  establishment of

  Johnson and

  lobbying efforts

  program recommendations for

  proposals made by

  report of

  working teams organized in

  President’s Commission on Coal

  President’s Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime

  Prestonsburg (Ky.)

  Program 60 and

  progress, vs. change

  Progressive magazine

  public services

  inadequacy of

  patronage jobs in

  tourism and demand on

  public transportation, lack of

  Puritan Coal Company

  Quakers

  Quicksand Demonstration Center,

  railroads

  Raleigh County (W.Va.)

  ARA benefits in

  CAAs in

  grassroots activism in

  population growth in

  transportation corridors and

  Randolph, Jennings

  Rasmussen, Donald

  Ratliff, Thomas

  Ray, Jink

  Reagan, Ronald

  real estate brokers, and political corruption

  recession (1981–1982)

  Reconstruction Finance Corporation

  recycling

  red-baiting

  Reece, Erik

  Reed, B. F.

  regional development

  regional organizations

  religion-based activist organizations

  Resettlement Administration

  retail chains

  Reuther, Walter

  Rhodes, James

  Richmond (Ky.)

  riots

  roads. See highways

  Robinson, Craig

  Rockcastle County (Ky.) Economic Opportunity Council

  Rockcastle Development Association

  Rockefeller, Jay

  Rogers, Hal

  Rogers, Woodrow

  Roosevelt, Franklin D.

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., Jr.

  row cropping

  Rumsfeld, Donald

  rural communities

  building of

  “growth center” strategy and

  manufacturing recruitment for

  public services relocated out of

  rural community centers

  Rural Community College Initiative

  rural displacement

  Appalachian development at cost of

  education and

  “growth center” strategy and

  post-WWII economy and

  urbanization and

  during WWII

  rural empowerment zone (EZ) program

  Russell, Donald

  Sanders, Carl E.

  Sanford, Terry

  Saturday Review

  Save Our Cumberland Mountains

  Save Our Homeplace campaign (1988)

  Save Our Kentucky (SOK)

  SCEF. See Southern Conference Education Fund

  school consolidation

  school lunch programs

  Schrag, Peter

  Schultze, Charles

  Schumacher, E. F.

  Schwarzweller, Harry

  Scott, Hugh

  Scott, Robert W.

  Scranton (Pa.)

  Scranton, William

  second-home development

  segregationism

  service economy

  settlement schools

  sewage facilities

  shopping malls

  Shriver, Sargent

  Sierra Club

  Silver Bridge collapse (1967)

  small business development

  Smathers, Michael

  Smith, Al

  Smith, Carroll

  smoking

  social sciences, post-WWII reorganization of

  Social Security

  Social Security Administration

  soil erosion

  South Carolina

  Southern Appalachian Forest Coalition

  Southern Appalachian Region, The (survey)

  Southern Bituminous Coal Operators’ Association

  Southern Conference Education Fund (SCEF)

  Southern Mountain Project

  Southern Regional Education Board

  Spadaro, Jack

  steel industry

  strikes

  strip mining

  absentee land ownership and

  AVs and

  “broad form” deeds and

  environmental costs of

  expansion of

  grassroots activism against

  lobbying efforts against

  regulation of

  site sabotage

  social costs of

  TVA cheap-power policy and See also mountaintop removal mining

  Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

  student service-learning projects

  Stumbo, Grady

  Sturgill, Bill

  suburbanization

  summer children’s camps

  summer reading programs

  Sunshine Valley Farms

  superhighways

  Supplemental Security Income

  supply-side economics

  surface mining. See strip mining

  Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (1977)

  environmentalist opposition to

  feat
ures of

  mountaintop removal as legal loophole in

  passage of

  surface rights

  Sweeney, John L.

  ARDA revised by

  on Council of Appalachian Governors

  on growth center strategy

  as PARC executive director

  Task Force on Area Redevelopment

  Tawes, Millard

  taxes

  absentee land ownership and

  coal industry and

  coal severance

  cuts

  fair

  inadequacy of

  manufacturing recruitment and

  Tennessee

  ARA benefits in

  AV program in

  CSM petition for interstate commission

  farm population decline in

  grassroots activism in

  grassroots organizations in

  mineral rights in

  missionary antipoverty programs in

  out-migration from

  poverty in

  unemployment in

  WWII industrial mobilization in

  Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

  autonomous power of

  cheap power policy of

  establishment of

  land condemnation and

  as southern mountain authority model

  WWII industrial mobilization and

  Texas, Appalachian out-migration to

  textile industry

  Appalachian out-migrants employed in

  brown lung disease in

  decline of

  offshoring of

  This Land Is Home to Me (Catholic Bishops of Appalachia)

  Tiller, John

  timber culture

  timber development

  tobacco

  tourism

  toxic landfills

  Toynbee, Arnold

  traffic congestion

  transportation

  commuting and

  “growth center” strategy and

  health care and

  local/state roads and

  post-WWII improvements in

  Program 60 and

  public

  WPA improvements in See also Appalachian Development Highway System; highways

  trash dumps, illegal

  truck mines

  Trumka, Richard

  Tucker, George

  Turner, Ervine

  Turner, Marie

  Tyner (Ky.)

  underdevelopment

  Underwood, Cecil

  unemployment

  ARA and

  balanced growth and

  coal industry decline and

  corporate exploitation as cause of

  decreases in

  limited manufacturing growth and

  persistence of

  Program 60 and

  Reagan budget cuts and

  strip mining and

  unemployment benefits

  Union College

  union reform

  United Glove

  United Mine Workers of America (UMWA)

  corruption of

  decline of

  democratization of

  grassroots activism against

  Health and Retirement Funds

  Miners Memorial hospitals of

  political influence of

  strikes initiated by

  wage agreement signed by (1950)

  United States Bureau of Public Roads

  United States Bureau of the Budget

  United States Commerce Department

  United States Congress

  anti–strip mining legislation and

 

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