Emma Tenayuca and the 1938 San Antonio Pecan Shellers Strike
We are excited to share the page for the short film Emma Tenayuca and the 1938 San Antonio Pecan Shellers Strike. The documentary short is based on the feature documentary…
We are excited to share the page for the short film Emma Tenayuca and the 1938 San Antonio Pecan Shellers Strike. The documentary short is based on the feature documentary…
Anne Lewis will present segments of Asylum, Terror and the Future at the Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera 16th annual Women and Fair Trade Festival November 23 and 24,…
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…
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…