outside volunteers, 87, 112, 116, 150
radicalized, 135, 157, 169, 171, 175
resigns from Appalachian Volunteers, 196
strip mining, 175
Operation Bookstrap, 34–35
Owsley County, KY, 67, 157
Indian Creek, 157
Licking Fork, 157
Mistletoe, 157
Wolf Creek, 157
Palmer, Karyn, 155
Parent-Teacher Association, 84
Parks, Rosa, 2
Peace Corps, 34–35, 103, 110
Pearce, John Ed, 85
Perkins, Carl (U.S. congressman), 25, 28, 180
Perry, Huey, 171
Perry County, KY, 30, 32, 80, 167
Big Willard, 80
Peterson, Bill (Louisville Courier-Journal), 187
Pettit, Katherine, 7
Pike County, KY, 1, 12, 32, 41, 53, 183–84, 187, 194, 195, 200, 212–14
Appalachian Group to Save the Land and People, 187–88
conflict with local businesses, 184–85
Kentucky Un-American Activities Committee, 197–99
Marrowbone Folk School, 174, 187–88, 194
renovation projects, 127, 185
sedition arrests, 188, 190
Pike County Citizens Association, 202
Pike County grand jury, 179, 189–90, 195
Pikeville, KY, 183, 187, 191, 199, 211, 212
conflict with local officials, 115, 189
E-Squad, 183
Kentucky Un-American Activities Committee, 195, 214
sedition arrests, 189, 191, 211
Pikeville College, 184
Pine Mountain, 51–51, 71
Pine Mountain Settlement School, 17, 50
Poage, Ben, 203
Pomona College, 104, 110
Pope, Daniel, 13
President’s Appalachian Regional Commission (PARC), 38–41
Prestonsburg, 89, 204
Prial, Frank, 129–31, 132
Puritan Coal Company, 188
Qualls, Larry, 108
Queens College (NY), 103, 105–7
Radford, VA, 69
radicalism, 13
Raleigh County, WV, 53, 151, 170, 183, 201
Ratliff, Tom, 195, 214
Ray, Jink, 188
Red Bird Valley, 81, 86
Rhodenbaugh, Tom, 90, 96, 104, 106, 111, 118, 169
draft, 191
problems with local officials, 168–69
Ribicoff, Abraham, 27
Rivel, Jack, 84, 87, 93, 94, 98, 119–20
Appalachian Volunteers president, 93
draft, 191
Mulloy, Joe, 147
recruitment of volunteers, 147
Robinson, Douglas G., 204
Rockcastle County, KY, 34, 97, 111, 116, 157, 168, 182, 212
Blue Springs, 97, 212, 234n45
Buffalo, 168
Cove Ridge, 234n45
Owen Allen, 234n45
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 48
Roosevelt, Franklin D., Jr., 38
Ross, Judy, 167
Ross, Malcolm, 208
roving pickets, 86. See also Appalachian Committee for Full Employment
Saint Pius X Interracial Council (Uniondale, NY), 103
school renovation projects. See Appalachian Volunteers
Scott County, VA, 151
settlement schools, 7, 8, 201
Shedd, Charles, 115
Shields, Mike, 187
Shifflett, Crandall, 9–10
Shriver, Sargent (Office of Economic Opportunity), 89, 16, 199
Sigmon, Robert (American Friends Service Committee), 57, 59–61, 63, 66–67
Smith Act (1940), 6
Smith, Hulett, 165–66, 187, 199, 204
social security, 6, 61, 176, 200
Social Security Administration, 28
Sommerville, James, 169–70
Southeast Christian College, 97
Southern Conference Educational Fund, 146, 187
Soviet Union, 4–5
Sparks, Harry (Kentucky State superintendent of schools), 174
Stewart, Judy, 158
Stone, May, 7
Strong, Manuel (Middle Kentucky River Development Council), 151
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), 2, 4, 24, 98
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), 3, 86
Sutherland, J. Hoge T., 98–100
Sword, Tim (Wilmington College Project), 105
Syracuse, NY, 12, 109
Taylor, Lee (Northeast Kentucky Area Redevelopment Council), 128–29
Theobald, Robert, 223n34
Thoenen, David, 154
Thomas, Judy, 120
Thorkelson, Howard, 202
Title V, 200
Title II, 89, 163
Trout, Allen (Louisville Courier-Journal), 32
Truman, Harry S., 5
Tucker, Bruce, 22
Turner, Don, 176
Turner, Ed, 156
Turner, Marie (Breathitt County, KY superintendent of schools), 34, 151
Turner-Elkhorn Mining Company, 26
Union College, 42, 87, 94
United Church Board for Homeland Ministries, 103
University of Kentucky, 19, 42, 51, 69, 89–91, 98, 107, 109–10, 139, 147
University of Louisville, 103
Upper Jones Creek, 42
urban workshops, 22, 30
Vance, Rupert, 21
Vietnam War, 13, 146, 191–95, 210, 211
Voluntary International Service Assignment (VISA), 54, 57–60, 66. See also Irons, Carol; Mill Creek, KY
Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), 3
as Appalachian Volunteers, 86, 89, 110, 111, 113–14, 136, 150, 154–55, 160–61, 171
Appalachian Volunteers supervision, 120
associates, 110, 111
confrontation with local officials, 116, 128–29, 168, 171, 187
county community action programs, 167
created, 86
joins Appalachian Volunteers, 86–87, 89, 93–94, 103, 107, 113, 146, 211
problems with Appalachian Volunteers, 125, 142–44
problems with Council of the Southern Mountains, 136, 141
problems with Office of Economic Opportunity, 125, 134
trained by Appalachian Volunteers, 111, 142–44
Voting Rights Act (1965), 14
Waller, Altina, 9
Walls, David, 192–93, 195–96, 204–5, 254n43
War on Poverty, 1, 4, 7, 8, 10–11, 13–15, 22, 29, 42–43, 46, 49, 79, 93–93, 103, 119, 126, 134, 146, 176, 201, 207, 209, 215
Appalachian Volunteers, 88, 113, 115, 123–24, 134, 135, 146, 148, 161, 168, 171, 184, 213
created, 49, 70
Council of the Southern Mountains, 98, 121, 123–24, 145
Johnson’s declaration, 48, 147
Kentucky Office of Economic Opportunity, 190–91, 213
Nunn, Louie, 179–80
Office of Economic Opportunity, 131–32
Vietnam War, 211
Weeksbury, KY, 101, 134
Weisman, Ellen, 123, 134
welfare rights, 135, 160, 172, 173–74, 202, 203
Weller, Jack, 8, 32, 111
Wells, William (Bill), 98, 106, 115, 119, 125, 139, 161–62, 163, 191
Whisman, John, 28, 74–75
Whisnant, David, 10, 153, 185, 193
Whitehouse, Al (Office of Economic Opportunity, KY office), 190–91, 213
Whitesburg, KY, 8, 36, 127
Whitley County, KY, 161, 183, 190
Gatliff, 161
Hanging Rock, 161
Midspring, 161
Wilkerson, 161
Wilmington College, 105–6, 118
Wise County, VA, 29, 169, 183
Appalachian Volunteers in, 172, 174
community action program, 169–70
Wolfe County, KY, 29, 97, 98, 114, 172, 175
Hunting Fork, 97, 98
Mala
ga, 172
Sandy Ridge, 172
Vortex, 97, 98
Wolfenden, Carol, 155
World War II, 1, 4, 5, 18, 31, 47, 69
Wyoming County, WV, 151, 183
Yarrow, Doug, 98, 191
Yost, John (Citizens Bank of Pikeville), 184–85
Zellner, Bob, 2
Zuckerman, Alan, 129
Zysman, John, 156
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