VOICES FROM THE 60'S: THE WAR ON POVERTY IN WEST VIRGINIA
VOICES FROM THE 60'S: THE WAR ON POVERTY IN WEST VIRGINIA / produced by Gibbs and Kinderman. - Four half-hour programs tracing what happened when young middle class volunteers came from the city to the hollows of West Virginia in the mid-60's. What began as social work and tutoring soon turned into community organizing and confrontation with the local power structures. The programs trace the growth of the Appalachian Volunteers, the attempt to orgnaize the poor using government atni-poverty funds, and struggles to stop strip mining and clean up corrupt elections. "Voices from the 60's" combines interviews and music from the period to tell this little known chapter in the history of the 60's.