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Peace Corps volunteers shaped lives in Ghana and WV
John David recounts six trainees who joined Peace Corps to Ghana in 1965. They faced a coup, taught math and science, built modern textbooks, and collaborated on village work-camp projects. The experience spurred later work in West Virginia, economics, and founding the Southern Appalachian Labor School.
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Dartmouth
California
Morehouse College
Atlanta
Ebenezer Baptist Church
Martin Luther King Jr
King
U.S
New York
Accra
Ashanti
Upper
Northern
Volta
Bono
Akwaaba
Kumasi
Prempeh College
Asantehene
Alex
Vladimir
Kwame Nkrumah
United States
Peace Corps
Kennedy
Kaiser Aluminum
Ravenswood
Akosombo Dam
Nkrumah
Ussr
China
Europe
Tanzania
Jamaica
West Virginia
Southern Appalachian Labor School
West Virginia Institute of Technology
SALS
Tech
Health Services Administration
Thored
Columbia University
West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine
Greenbriar County
Vietnam
Guinea
Sekou Toure
Kwame Ture
Stokely Carmichael
America