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Description
The Appalachian Volunteers formed in the early 1960s, determined to eliminate poverty through education and vocational training and to improve schools and homes in the mountainous regions of the south-eastern United States. This book illustrates how the activists ultimately failed, mainly because they were indecisive about the fundamental nature of their mission. The AVs, many of them college students, were also distracted by causes such as civil rights and opposition to the Vietnam War. Despite some progress, the organization finally lost the support of the national government and, more important, of many Appalachian people, setbacks from which it never recovered.
Publication Date
2008
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
Place of Publication
Lexington, KY
ISBN
978-0-8131-2509-1
eISBN
978-0-8131-7308-5 (pdf version)
eISBN
978-0-8131-3895-4 (epub)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813125091.001.0001
Keywords
Appalachian Volunteers, Poverty, Education, Vocational training, Civil rights, Vietnam War, 1960s
Disciplines
Appalachian Studies | Politics and Social Change | United States History
Recommended Citation
Kiffmeyer, Thomas, "Reformers to Radicals: The Appalachian Volunteers and the War on Poverty" (2008). United States History. 168.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_united_states_history/168
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