Emma Tenayuca and the 1938 San Antonio Pecan Shellers Strike
Emma Tenayuca and the 1938 San Antonio Pecan Shellers Strike. The documentary short is based on the feature documentary A Strike and an Uprising (in Texas!). The site is a living…
Emma Tenayuca and the 1938 San Antonio Pecan Shellers Strike. The documentary short is based on the feature documentary A Strike and an Uprising (in Texas!). The site is a living…
A film by Anne Lewis and Laura Varela raúl r salinas and the Poetry of Liberation is trilogy that takes us through the life of Xicanindio poet/activist raúlrsalinas’ told through…
HIS EYE IS ON THE SPARROW 2003, 26:40 Ethel Caffie-Austin, West Virginia ’s first lady of gospel music, performs and teaches African American spirituals, hymns, and contemporary gospel songs. "Captures her in…
MORGAN SEXTON: BANJO PLAYER FROM BULL CREEK 1991, 29:00 Eastern Kentucky's Morgan Sexton cut his first banjo out of the bottom of a lard bucket, and some seventy years later won…
MINNIE BLACK'S GOURD BAND 1988, 29:00 Minnie Black is ninety years old but she's still making music and art out of the gourds she grows in her backyard garden in East…
LILY MAY LEDFORD 1988, 29:00 Lily May Ledford--the original "banjo-pickin' girl"--led the Coon Creek Girls, the first all-woman stringband on radio. The program includes footage of Lily May performing and interviews…
ARTUS MOSER of BUCKEYE COVE 1985, 29:00 Artus Moser, "a Renaissance man of the mountains," was born in 1894, and grew up on the Biltmore Estate near Asheville, North Carolina, where…
SARAH BAILEY 1984, 29:00 From Bledsoe in Harlan County, Kentucky, a portrait of e of Appalachia's finest weavers and corn shuck artists. "From her corn shuck dolls and flowers to…