[Each month we feature a "creator" or one of the SHC's
manuscript collections. In archival terms, a creator is defined
as an individual, group, or organization that is responsible for
a collection's production, accumulation, or formation.] John
Charles Campbell and Olive D. Campbell were missionary teachers
in Appalachian Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, North Carolina, and
Alabama at the turn of the 20th Century. John Campbell received
a research grant from the Russell Sage Foundation to study the
mountain regions of the South in 1909 and soon became an expert
on the economic and social conditions of the Appalachians. He
was secretary of Southern Highland Division of the Russell Sage
Foundation in Asheville, N.C.; author of the Foundation’s survey
of conditions in the Southern Appalachians; and organizer of the
Conference of Southern Mountain Workers. His wife, Olive Dame
Campbell (1882-1954) traveled with her husband; founded and
directed the John C. Campbell Folk School and related
cooperatives at Brasstown,