URBAN APPALACHIAN COUNCIL COLLECTION
Papers 1974-1978

East Tennessee State University
Archives of Appalachia
Box 70295
Johnson City, Tennessee 37614

E-mail: archives@etsu.edu
Telephone: (423) 439-4338

INTRODUCTION

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Provenance: The Urban Appalachian Council Collection was given to Archives of Appalachia by Dan McKee, Research Associate, Urban Appalachian Council, October 27, 1978.

Access: The collection is open for research.

Processing Information: David H. Goodin completed the processing and the collection was opened for research on June 26, 1979.

HISTORICAL NOTE

The Urban Appalachian Council was formed by the union of the Appalachian Committee and the Appalachian Identity Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. Some of the members of the council have been involved with various Appalachian causes since the late l950's. In the mid-1960's, the Conference on Appalachian Migrants led to the United Appalachian Cincinnati. By the beginning of the 1970's, the Appalachian Committee was formed to increase the programs for Appalachian migrants. The Urban Appalachian Council was formed February 28, 1974 and was devoted to increased recognition of the Appalachian migrants as a minority and to provide educational assistance and employment.

The Identity Center was established by United Appalachian Cincinnati in the mid-l960's in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood and is still providing services to the community.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The papers of the Urban Appalachain Council are a collection reports, publications, and papers dealing with the recent immigrants to Ohio urban areas such as Akron, Toledo, and Cincinnati from neighboring rural Appalachain areas. These documents are focused on the socioeconomic, education, health, and settlement patterns of these people from 1960 through 1978. Race relations, labor distributions, religious preferences, and historical backgrounds are also addressed. The collection includes Council publications, working and research papers, case studies, reports, maps, and several pamphlets. An index to the collection follows the contents listing.

Important subjects covered in the collection includes:

Mountain whites (Southern States)--Ohio
Ohio--Population
Rural-urban migration
Urban Appalachian Council

CONTENTS

Folder 1: Urban Appalachian Council Publications, 1974-1978.

The Appalachian Advocate, March 1974-May 1977.
Research Bulletins, October 1975-October 1978.

Folder 2: Urban Appalachian Council Publications, 1974-1978 and a statement on major issues.

Appalachian Migrants in Midwestern and Midatlantic Cities prepared for President Carter's Midwest forum on Urban Poverty, Detroit, Michigan, October 1977.
A Unit of Study on Appalachian History, Life, and Migration, prepared by KathleenSowders, Berea College, July 1975.
Working Paper No. 2, The Implications of Appalachian Culture for Social Practice by Michael E. Maloney, September 1974.
A.C.V.S., a catalogue of the Appalachian Community Video Service Annual Report of Urban Appalachian Council 1977.
A list of research papers and printed material of the Urban Appalachian Council.
A map of Appalachian migrants in Cincinnati neighborhoods.
Several pamphlets.

Folder 3: Urban Appalachian Council working papers and reports, 1974-1978.

A Report on Appalachians in Akron, Ohio, February 1978.
Working Paper No. 3, Urban Appalachian Health Behavior by Virginia McCoy Watkins, September 1974.
Working Paper No. 5, Ethnicity and Education: The Intercultural Dimension by Phillip J. Obermiller, October 1974.
Working Paper No. 7, Socioeconomic and Ethnic Composition of Catholic Parishes in Cincinnati and Norwood, Ohio by David Bruning, March 1975.
Working Paper No. 8, School Dropout or Student Pushout by Marvin J. Berlowitz and Henry Durand, Spring 1977.
Working Paper No. 9, A Comparison of Appalachian, Black, and White Neighborhoods of Cincinnati 1460-1970 by Dan M. McKee, revised, November 1977.
From Mountain to Metropolis: Urban Appalachians in Ohio by Dan M. McKee and Phillip J. Obermiller, June 1978.

Folder 4: Urban Appalachian Council Reports, 1978.

A Report on Appalachians in Dayton, Ohio, May 1978.
A Report on Appalachians in Toledo, Ohio, March 1978.
Settlement Patterns of Appalachian Migrants and Youth in Hamilton County, Ohio 1965-1970 by Virginia McCoy Watkins, March 1978.

Folder 5:

The Bridges To Cincinnati, by Michael E. Maloney, Copyright 1971 by Michael E. Maloney.

 

INDEX

*Notation following index term indicates folder location of indexed materials.

Annual Report, Urban Appalachian Council, 1977: 2
Appalachian Advocate, March, 1974 - May 1978: 1
Catalogue of the Appalachian Community Video Service: 2
Map, "Estimated Percent of Appalachians by Neighborhoods, Cincinnati, Ohio": 2
Pamphlet, "The Frank Foster Library": 2

Pamphlet, "Urban Appalachian Council": 2
Report, "Appalachian Migrants in Midwestern and Midatlantic Cities": 2
Report, "From Mountain to Metropolis: Urban Appalachians in Ohio": 3
Report, "A Report on Appalachians in Akron, Ohio": 3
Report, "A Report on Appalachians in Dayton, Ohio": 4

Report, "A Report on Appalachians in Toledo, Ohio": 4
Report, "Settlement Patterns of Appalachian Migrants and Youth in Hamilton County, Ohio, 1965-1970": 4
Research Bulletin, May, 1977: 1
Research Bulletin, October, 1975: 1
Research Bulletin, May, 1976: 1

Research Bulletin, October, 1977: 1
Research Bulletin, October, 1978: 1
Unit of study, "Appalachia History, Life, and Migration", grades 5-8: 2
Working paper, "A Comparison of Appalachian, Black and White Neighborhoods of Cincinnati, 1960-1970": 3
Working paper, "Ethnicity and Education: The Intercultural Dimension": 3

Working paper, "The Implications of Appalachian Culture for Social Welfare Practice": 2
Working paper, "School Dropout or Student Pushout?": 3
Working paper, "Socioeconomic and Ethnic Composition of Catholic Parishes in Cincinnati and Norwood, Ohio": 3

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