They’ll Cut Off Your Project: A Mingo County Chronicle (WEST VIRGINIA & APPALACHIA)

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In old England, if a king didn’t like you, he would bring to a halt your head. Now, if they don’t like you, they’ll bring to a halt your project!

As the Johnson Administration initiated its war on poverty within the 1960s, the Mingo County Economic Opportunity Commission project used to be established in southern West Virginia. Huey Perry, a young, local history teacher used to be named the director of this program and soon he started to advertise self-sufficiency among low-source of revenue and vulnerable populations. As the poor of Mingo County worked together to beef up conditions, the local political infrastructure felt threatened by a shift in power. Bloody Mingo County, known for its violent labor movements, corrupt government, and the infamous Hatfield-McCoy rivalry, met Perry’s revolution with opposition and resistance. 

In They’ll Cut Off Your Project, Huey Perry reveals his efforts to assist the poor of an Appalachian community challenge a local regime. He describes this community’s attempts to beef up school programs and conditions, establish cooperative grocery stores to bypass inflated prices, and expose electoral fraud. Along the best way, Perry unfolds the local authority’s hostile backlash to such change and the extreme measures that led to an eventual investigation by the FBI. They’ll Cut Off Your Project chronicles the triumphs and screw ups of the war on poverty, illustrating why and how a local government that purports to work for the public’s welfare cuts off a project for social reform.


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