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- Title
Growing the Hills: The Ozarks Regional Commission and the Politics of Economic Development in the Mid-American Highlands, 1960s-1970s.
- Authors
PERKINS, J. BLAKE
- Abstract
The article discusses the history of the Ozarks Regional Commission (ORC), which was a U.S. federal regional economic development commission authorized by Title V of the U.S. Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965. It is said that the ORC was an attempt to alleviate poverty and economic underdevelopment in the Ozarks region. Topics include the comparison of the Ozarks to Appalachia as another poor rural region and the U.S. Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC), the decline of agriculture in the region, and the 1961 U.S. Area Redevelopment Act, which created the U.S. Area Redevelopment Administration (ARA).
- Subjects
OZARK Mountains; OZARK Mountain region; APPALACHIAN Region; UNITED States; RURAL poor; ECONOMIC development; RURAL renewal; APPALACHIAN Regional Commission; RURAL development; HISTORY; TWENTIETH century; ECONOMIC history; SOCIAL history
- Publication
Missouri Historical Review, 2013, Vol 107, Issue 3, p144
- ISSN
0026-6582
- Publication type
Article