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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Peoples Appalachian Research Collective, Papers regarding Strip Mining, A&M 2618, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of correspondence, notes, articles, newsletters, news clippings, reports, studies, Congressional testimony, and other materials collected by Keith Dix and other members of the Peoples Appalachian Research Collective for the purpose of preparing a 1971 issue of People's Appalachia concerning strip mining in Appalachia. The bulk of the material is newsletters from anti-strip mining organizations and reports, studies, and testimonies on regulation of this industry.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- Coal mining - Regulation.
- Coal mining - Strip mining.
- Coal mining.
- Dix, Keith
- Environmentalism.
- People's Appalachia.
- Peoples' Appalachian Research Collective
- Strip mining
- Strip mining -- Appalachian Region
- Surface mining.
- West Virginia - strip mining issue.
Container List
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Material on John Garlow familyca. 1968-1973
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
Notes, correspondence, and drafts of articles concerning PARC and PA strip mining issuesca. 1968-1973
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
Appalachian Strip Mining Information Service newsletterOctober 1971-January 1972
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
Appalachian Strip Mining Information Service newsletterFebruary 1972-"last issue 1972" (undated)
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5
Mid-Appalachian Environmental Service newsletter and correspondenceJuly 1971-December 1972
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6
Miscellaneous anti-strip mining groups: Council of the Southern Mountains; South Today; Citizens to Abolish Strip Mining, Inc.; The Third World Reader Service; Sierra Club; Coal Patrol; Save Our Kentucky; Environmental Policy Center; Buffalo Creek Massacre Coalition; Appalachia South (APSO); Environmental Action; Friends of the Earth; and the Union for Radical Political Economicsca. 1968-1973
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 1
National Coal Association and Mined Land Conservation Conference newsletters (pro-strip mining)ca. 1968-1973
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 2
Legal actions and congressional testimoniesca. 1968-1973
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 3
Reports and studies on strip mining and reclamationca. 1968-1973
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 4
News clippingsca. 1968-1973