High Mountains Rising (45 page)

8.
The best accounts of the 1960 West Virginia primary are by Harry W. Ernst,
The Primary That Made a President
(New York: Rutgers University Press, 1960), and Theodore H. White,
The Making of the President, 1960
(New York: Atheneum House, 1961).

9.
“Philosophy Conflict Blocks 7-State Pact,”
Louisville Courier-Journal
, May 21, 1960, p. 1.

10.
Council of State Governments,
Summary: Conference of Appalachian Governors
(Atlanta, 1960); Hugh Morris, “States Differ on Need for U.S. Aid to Area,”
Louisville Courier-Journal
, May 18, 1960, sec. 1, p. 1; Conference of Appalachian Governors, “A Resolution Subscribing to and Supporting a Declaration for Action Regarding the Appalachian Region,” in Council of State Governments,
Summary
, n.p.

11.
“Kennedy Names 11 to Draft Aid Plan for Depressed Areas,”
Louisville Courier-Journal
, Dec. 5, 1960, sec. 1, p. 1; Fred W. Luigart Jr., “Kentuckian Is Joining Depressed-Area Group,”
Louisville Courier-Journal
, Dec. 7, 1960, sec. 2, p. 1.

12.
“Kennedy Names 11,” p. 1; Luigart, “Kentuckian Is Joining Depressed-Area Group,” p. 1.

13.
See Taul, “Poverty, Development, and Government in Appalachia,” 184–226.

14.
David E. Whisnant,
Modernizing the Mountaineer: People, Power, and Planning in Appalachia
(Boone, N.C.: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1980), 71–72; James E. Anderson, “Poverty, Unemployment, and Economic Development: The Search for a National Antipoverty Policy,”
Journal of Politics
29 (Feb. 1967): 78–79; James Branscome,
The Federal Government in Appalachia
(New York: The Field Foundation, 1977), 23–24.

15.
Harry M. Caudill,
Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1963), 390.

16.
Eastern Kentucky Regional Planning Commission,
Program 60: Report
(Frankfort, Ky.: Eastern Kentucky Regional Planning Commission, June 30, 1962), 8.

17.
See Sar A. Levitan,
The Design of Federal Antipoverty Strategy
(Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1967); Michael L. Gillette,
Launching the War on Poverty: An Oral History
(New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996); Irwin Unger,
The Best of Intentions: The Triumph and Failure of the Great Society under Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon
(New York: Doubleday, 1996).

18.
“One Dead, Thousands Homeless,”
Lexington Herald
, Mar. 18, 1963, p. 1; “Back to Beginnings in Eastern Kentucky,”
Louisville Courier-Journal
, Mar. 19, 1963, p. 6; “Editorial,”
Whitesburg Mountain Eagle
, Mar. 20, 1963, p. 2.

19.
Whisman to Appalachian Commission Members (memo), pp. 23–24; transcript of the Joint Meeting of the Advisory Policy Board to Area Redevelopment Administration and Conference of Appalachian Governors, Washington, D.C., April 9, 1963, pp. 1–4,Papers of John D. Whisman, Conference of Appalachian Governors Series, Margaret I. King Library, Special Collections and Archives, University of Kentucky, Lexington (hereafter cited as Whisman Papers).

20.
President's Appalachian Regional Commission,
Appalachia: A Report by the President's Appalachian Regional Commission
(Washington, D.C., 1964).

21.
Fred Luigart, “Mountains Get Aid from JFK Order,”
Louisville Courier-Journal
, Dec. 24, 1963, p. 1.

22.
Glen Taul, interview with John L. Sweeney (executive director, President's Appalachian Regional Commission), May 13 and 20, 1997 (copy in the author's possession); Taul, “Poverty, Development, and Government in Appalachia,” 288–302.

23.
Richard Harwood, “LBJ, Moved by Plight of the Poor, Asks Domestic Marshall Plan,”
Louisville Courier-Journal
, Apr. 25, 1964, p. 7.

24.
For details, see Taul, “Poverty, Development, and Government in Appalachia,” 373–86.

25.
“Remarks of the President at the Signing Ceremony on the Appalachia Bill in the Rose Garden,” Mar. 9, 1965, The White House, in the Whisman Papers.

26.
See Unger,
Best of Intentions
, 29–32; Nicholas Lemann,
The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991), 149–51; Gillette,
Launching the War on Poverty
, 1–19.

27.
See Jack Weller,
Yesterday's People: Life in Contemporary Appalachia
(Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1965).

28.
See Thomas J. Kiffmeyer, “From Self-Help to Sedition: The Appalachian Volunteers in Eastern Kentucky, 1964–1970,”
Journal of Southern History
64:1 (Feb. 1998): 65–94.

29.
See Whisnant,
Modernizing the Mountaineer;
John M. Glen, “The War on Poverty in Appalachia: A Preliminary Report,”
Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
87 (Winter 1989): 40–57.

30.
Ken Hechler, “TVA Ravages the Land,”
The Environmental Journal: National Parks and Conservation Magazine
, July 1971, p. 16.

31.
See Chad Montrie,
To Save the Land and People: A History of Opposition to Coal Surface Mining in Appalachia
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002).

32.
Ronald D Eller,
Kentucky's Distressed Communities: A Report on Poverty in Appalachian Kentucky
(Lexington: Appalachian Center, University of Kentucky, 1994).

33.
See ibid.; Lawrence E. Wood and Gregory A. Bischak,
Progress and Challenges in Reducing Economic Distress in Appalachia: An Analysis of National and Regional Trends since 1960
(Washington, D.C.: Appalachian Regional Commission, 2000); “Appalachia: Hollow Promises,”
Columbus Dispatch
, Sept. 26–30, 1999; Richard Couto,
An American Challenge: A Report on Economic Trends and Social Issues in Appalachia
(Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt, 1994).

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