Reformers to Radicals (28 page)

Through 1964 and 1965, most Appalachian Volunteer projects focused on the renovation of many of eastern Kentucky's rural one-room schoolhouses. This photograph shows eight male students in front of a schoolhouse. (Courtesy Records of the Appalachian Volunteers, Southern Appalachian Archives, Berea College.)

A typical eastern Kentucky one-room school. (Courtesy Records of the Appalachian Volunteers, Southern Appalachian Archives, Berea College.)

Another eastern Kentucky one-room school. (Courtesy Records of the Appalachian Volunteers, Southern Appalachian Archives, Berea College.)

In their early years (1964–1965), the Volunteers focused on school repairs and renovation projects in schools. In these efforts, men and women shared most of the work equally, although men usually did the repairs while the women did the painting. This photograph shows window repair and painting under way. (Courtesy Records of the Appalachian Volunteers, Southern Appalachian Archives, Berea College.)

Another example of a school repair and renovation project, this one involving exterior painting.

The residences of many mountaineers were as poor as their schools. This, according to the Volunteers, was the “Shells' place,” near Lewis Creek, Kentucky (in 1968). (Courtesy Records of the Appalachian Volunteers, Southern Appalachian Archives, Berea College.)

Shortly after their initial renovation and repair projects, the Appalachian Volunteers included enrichment projects in their program. The Books for Appalachia project collected from across the nation used books that the Volunteers then distributed to the region's rural schools. This image shows books arriving in Kentucky via military aircraft (ca. 1965). (Courtesy Records of the Appalachian Volunteers, Southern Appalachian Archives, Berea College.)

Jean Moister, the Council of the Southern Mountains' librarian, meets with an unidentified Louisville and Nashville Railroad agent to take possession of a boxcar full of donated books. (Courtesy Records of the Appalachian Volunteers, Southern Appalachian Archives, Berea College.)

After the Appalachian Volunteers unloaded the books from the boxcars, they trucked them to various locations throughout the region. (Courtesy Records of the Appalachian Volunteers, Southern Appalachian Archives, Berea College.)

In addition to planes and rails, some supplies arrived in large trucks. (Courtesy Records of the Appalachian Volunteers, Southern Appalachian Archives, Berea College.)

This photograph illustrates the poor state of most rural schools. (Courtesy Records of the Appalachian Volunteers, Southern Appalachian Archives, Berea College.)

Here three youngsters read Dr. Seuss's
The Cat in the Hat
. (Courtesy Records of the Appalachian Volunteers, Southern Appalachian Archives, Berea College.)