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<ref>{{cite journal |last1=McKinney |first1=Gordon B. |date=December 2004 |title=Extracting Appalachia: Images of the Consolidation Coal Company, 1910–1945, and: To Move a Mountain: Fighting the Global Economy in Appalachia (review) |url=http://muse.jhu.edu/article/174950 |journal=Enterprise & Society |language=en |publisher=Cambridge University Press |volume=5 |issue=4 |pages=721–724 |doi=10.1093/es/khh099a |issn=1467-2235 |quote="For Appalachian scholars in all disciplines, the domination of the region's economy by outside interests is a well-established fact. This historical development was welcomed by local elites in the period after the Civil War as a way to revive the moribund regional economy. With the collapse of the Appalachian economy in the 1920s, the advent of the Great Depression, and the War on Poverty in the 1960s, the early industrialists later seemed more like villains than saviors. This latter attitude was given voice by Harry M. Caudill, a lawyer from eastern Kentucky. In 1962, he published <cite>Night Comes to the Cumberlands</cite> that reached a broad national audience. The book's impact was considerable and is often credited with helping to create the Appalachian Regional Commission." |via=Project MUSE}}</ref> | <ref>{{cite journal |last1=McKinney |first1=Gordon B. |date=December 2004 |title=Extracting Appalachia: Images of the Consolidation Coal Company, 1910–1945, and: To Move a Mountain: Fighting the Global Economy in Appalachia (review) |url=http://muse.jhu.edu/article/174950 |journal=Enterprise & Society |language=en |publisher=Cambridge University Press |volume=5 |issue=4 |pages=721–724 |doi=10.1093/es/khh099a |issn=1467-2235 |quote="For Appalachian scholars in all disciplines, the domination of the region's economy by outside interests is a well-established fact. This historical development was welcomed by local elites in the period after the Civil War as a way to revive the moribund regional economy. With the collapse of the Appalachian economy in the 1920s, the advent of the Great Depression, and the War on Poverty in the 1960s, the early industrialists later seemed more like villains than saviors. This latter attitude was given voice by Harry M. Caudill, a lawyer from eastern Kentucky. In 1962, he published <cite>Night Comes to the Cumberlands</cite> that reached a broad national audience. The book's impact was considerable and is often credited with helping to create the Appalachian Regional Commission." |via=Project MUSE}}</ref> | ||
In 1963 President Kennedy formed the President's Appalachian Regional Commission to assist in advancing legislation to bring federal dollars to Appalachia. This legislation, the Appalachian Redevelopment Act, was enacted by [[U.S. Congress|Congress]] in 1965, creating the ARC as a federal agency.<ref name="Appalachian Regional Commission" /> It was signed into law by President | In 1963 President Kennedy formed the President's Appalachian Regional Commission to assist in advancing legislation to bring federal dollars to Appalachia. This legislation, the Appalachian Redevelopment Act, was enacted by [[U.S. Congress|Congress]] in 1965, creating the ARC as a federal agency.<ref name="Appalachian Regional Commission" /> It was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on March 9, 1965.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ziliak |first1=James P. |author-link1=James Ziliak |date=September 16, 2010 |title=The Appalachian Regional Development Act and Economic Change |url=https://uknowledge.uky.edu/ukcpr_papers/51/ |journal=University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research Discussion Paper Series |language=en |issue=51 |issn=1936-9379 |access-date=March 26, 2018}}</ref> | ||
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