The Southern Appalachian Region: A Survey - Paperback

by Thomas R. Ford (Editor)

The Southern Appalachian Region is the largest American ""problem area""-an area whose participation in the economic growth of the nation has not been sufficient to relieve the chronic poverty of its people. The existence of the problem was recognized a generation ago, but in the past decade the resistance of such areas to economic advance has acquired a more urgent significance in American thought. In 1958, a group of scholars undertook to make a new survey of the Southern Appalachian Region. Ai

Author Biography

Thomas R. Ford was professor of sociology and behavioral science at the University of Kentucky.