The upsurge of social justice movements and radicalism that characterized the Sixties had an equally dynamic correlation in the so-called “movement press”, the many independent print shops across the United States that published pamphlets and other political materials aimed at everyone from college students to blue-collar workers. In delving into this forgotten chapter of Appalachian activism, Pittsburgh artist and writer Shaun Slifer, creative director at the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum in Matewan, has undertaken a painstaking work of historical reconstruction. Read the Full Story >>