One of the many Philosophy majors among SHC’s early community organizers, Jack graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1971 and spent the following summer working in Mud Creek, Ky. He later founded the Georgia Agricultural Marketing Project after briefly working with the Solar Greenhouse Employment Project, both considered somewhat “spin-off” groups from the SHC, out of the mind of Bill Dow.
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SHC in Mud Creek, Kentucky
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Student Health Coalition Project Collection, Southern Historical Collection, UNC Chapel Hill
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Jack Beckford on the Student Health Coalition Legacy Fund
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Student Health Coalition Reunion Materials, 2009 and 2013, Southern Historical Collection, UNC Chapel Hill
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On the archive project’s first iteration: a documentary film
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