Interview with Hershel Shrewsbury, May 13, 1987
Project: Appalachia: War On Poverty Oral History Project
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Hershel Shrewsbury became the executive director of the Wyoming County Community Action Program in West Virginia in the 1960s. In this interview Shrewsbury discusses how he became involved in community action and how he was elected as a county chairman, chairman of the county board, and finally executive director of the organization. He talks about the issues the group wanted to resolve and the opposition they encountered. He talks about the role of outside volunteers from the VISTA and Appalachian Volunteers programs in community organizing.Interview Accession
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Shrewsbury, Hershel Interview by Gibbs Kinderman. 13 May. 1987. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Shrewsbury, H. (1987, May 13). Interview by G. Kinderman. Appalachia: War On Poverty Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Shrewsbury, Hershel, interview by Gibbs Kinderman. May 13, 1987, Appalachia: War On Poverty Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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