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Appalshop  

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  • Appalshop is a nonprofit media, arts, and education center based in Whitesburg, Kentucky, with a theater division office in Norton, Virginia. The Appalachian Community Film Workshop began in October 1969 as an Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) project during the Johnson administration's War on Poverty to train Appalachian youth in film and television technology. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media; Appalshop (United States)]

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