Action in Appalachia: Revealing Public Health, Housing, and Community Development records in the UK Libraries Special Collections Research Center
Item
Title
Action in Appalachia: Revealing Public Health, Housing, and Community Development records in the UK Libraries Special Collections Research Center
Description
This two-year project will result in 645 cubic feet of fully processed Appalachian records comprising seven hidden collections of War on Poverty-era, social justice organizational records. These community-driven groups worked to improve public health, housing, education, and economic development from the 1960s to the present by taking action in Appalachia. These records include those of the Appalachian Leadership and Community Outreach, Inc., a collaborative program for college students, and the Congress on Religion in Appalachia, an ecumenical response to the War on Poverty. Accessibility to these collections will contribute to new scholarship and public understanding about the social and economic development of Appalachia.
Program
Date
Temporal Coverage
1965 - 1990
Spatial Coverage
The geographic scope of this project is the Appalachian region: primarily Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina.
Extent
645 Architectural Drawings , Artifact (Including Archaeological Objects, Weapons, Machinery, Instruments, Costumes, Textiles, Ceramics, Glass, Furniture, Etc.), Audio (Including Speech And Music), Audiovisual, Ephemera, Image, Manuscript, Maps
Institution
Applicant Unit
Identifier
PI2 Institution
University of Kentucky libraries
PI2 Name
Ms. Ruth Bryan
Primary Contact
Ms. Deirdre Scaggs
Request
$156,439