Appalachian Volunteers
Appalachian Volunteers, Inc. was a non-profit organization engaged in community development projects in central Appalachia that evolved into a controversial community organizing network, with a reputation that went “from self-help to sedition” as its staff developed from "reformers to radicals," in the words of one historian, in the brief period between 1964 and 1970 during the War on Poverty.
Read more about Appalachian Volunteers: Origins, Program Expansion, Break With The Council of The Southern Mountains, Strip-mining and The Sedition Controversy, Governor Nunn and KUAC, AV in West Virginia, Decline and Demise, Reunion, Archives
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“Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)