Highlander Research and Education Center Records, 1917-2017

 
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 + Part 14 (M2019-039; Audio 515A/245): Additions: Highlander Education and Research Center Archives, 1931-1997
Container Title
Series: HREC-0033 Appalachian Land Ownership Study Records, 1979-1990
Physical Description: 1.8 cubic feet (4 archives boxes and 1 flat box). 
Scope and Content Note

This record group contains materials related to the Appalachian Land Ownership Study, initiated by members of the Appalachian Alliance in 1978. The study examined the land ownership patterns in eighty counties in six Appalachian states, tying extensive corporate and absentee ownership to scarce arable land, a weak tax base, lack of public services, stunted economic development, and other sources of persistent Appalachian poverty.

Study findings were published in November 1980 in a sever-volume document. This collection includes published study findings, including some unbound drafts or advanced drafts, as well as related news clippings and materials from the Appalachian Alliance. The group also contains news clippings related to land ownership in Appalachia and promotional materials for the published findings.

Box-Folder   78/1
  HREC Box/Folder   1/1
Who Owns Appalachia?, reviews 1983 November-1990 September
Box-Folder   78/2
  HREC Box/Folder   1/2
Who Owns Appalachia? Landownership and Its Impact, 1983
Box-Folder   78/3
  HREC Box/Folder   1/3
Who Owns Appalachia? Landownership and Its Impact, photocopy 1983
Box-Folder   78/4
  HREC Box/Folder   1/4
Land Ownership Patterns and Their Impacts on Appalachian Communities, 1981 February
Box-Folder   78/5
  HREC Box/Folder   1/5
Appalachian Land Ownership Study, Vol. II, Alabama 1980 November
Box-Folder   78/6
  HREC Box/Folder   1/6
Appalachian Land Ownership Study, Vol. II, Alabama, advance draft 1980 November
Box-Folder   79/1-2
  HREC Box/Folder   2/1-2
Appalachian Land Ownership Study, Vol. III, Kentucky 1980 November
Box-Folder   79/3
  HREC Box/Folder   2/3
Appalachian Land Ownership Study, Vol. IV, North Carolina, advance draft 1980 November
Box-Folder   79/4
  HREC Box/Folder   2/4
Appalachian Land Ownership Study, Vol. IV, North Carolina 1980 November
Box-Folder   79/5-6
  HREC Box/Folder   2/5-6
Appalachian Land Ownership Study, Vol. V, Tennessee 1980 November
Box-Folder   80/1
  HREC Box/Folder   3/1
Appalachian Land Ownership Study, Vol. VI, Virginia, unbound draft 1980 November
Box-Folder   80/2
  HREC Box/Folder   3/2
Appalachian Land Ownership Study, Vol. VI, Virginia 1980 November
Box-Folder   80/3
  HREC Box/Folder   3/3
Appalachian Land Ownership Study, Vol. VII, West Virginia 1980 November
Box-Folder   80/4
  HREC Box/Folder   3/4
Appalachian Land Ownership Study, Vol. VII, West Virginia, advance draft 1980 November
Box-Folder   80/5
  HREC Box/Folder   3/5
Appalachian Land Ownership Study, Vol. VII, West Virginia County Profiles, advance draft 1980 November
Box-Folder   81/1
  HREC Box/Folder   4/1
Mountain Life and Work: Who Owns the Land and Minerals?, 1981 April-November
Box-Folder   81/2
  HREC Box/Folder   4/2
Kentucky Fair Tax Coalition, 1982 March 27
Box-Folder   81/3
  HREC Box/Folder   4/3
The Appalachian Land Ownership Study: From Colonialism to Stewardship, 1981
Box-Folder   81/4
  HREC Box/Folder   4/4
Catholic Rural Life land ownership issue, 1981 August
Box-Folder   81/5
  HREC Box/Folder   4/5
Appalachian Land Ownership Study news clippings, 1981 March-May
Box-Folder   81/6
  HREC Box/Folder   4/6
Who Owns the Land and Minerals?, summary 1981
Box-Folder   81/7
  HREC Box/Folder   4/7
Sojourners: Land: Who Owns the Earth?, 1979 November
Box-Folder   81/8
  HREC Box/Folder   4/8
Mountain Life and Work, 1981 April-August
Box-Folder   81/9
  HREC Box/Folder   4/9
Seeds: Hungry in the Hills, 1980 October
Box-Folder   81/10
  HREC Box/Folder   4/10
The Progressive, 1981 June
Box-Folder   81/11
  HREC Box/Folder   4/11
Appalachian Land Ownership articles, duplicates, incomplete, or unknown source 1981 April-May
Box-Folder   81/12
  HREC Box/Folder   4/12
Appalachian Land Ownership Study news releases, 1981 April 3
Box-Folder   81/13-14
  HREC Box/Folder   4/13-14
Land ownership news clippings, some items removed to oversize box (Box 5) 1981 February-1982 February
Box-Folder   81/15
  HREC Box/Folder   4/15
Land ownership pamphlets, 1981
Appalachian Alliance
Box-Folder   81/16
  HREC Box/Folder   4/16
Proposal and news releases, 1981-1983
Box-Folder   81/17
  HREC Box/Folder   4/17
Memos, meeting minutes 1982 June-December
Box-Folder   81/18
  HREC Box/Folder   4/18
Materials, 1982 October-1983 June
Box-Folder   81/19
  HREC Box/Folder   4/19
Task force article, 1979 September
Box-Folder   82/2
  HREC Box/Folder   5/1
Oversize materials, contains newspapers, including People and Taxes, alfalfa, Sandy New Era, National Catholic Reporter, Appalachian Observer, and Kentucky Fair Tax Coalition 1981 June-1982 June