Annie Mae Carpenter and the Uprising in Nacogdoches
A 14 minute short designed for high school and up to explore Texas labor history and the leadership of African American women in Nacogdoches. The film features 3 high school…
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…
A Strike and an Uprising! (in Texas)
The film is a documentary based in the telling of two events: the San Antonio pecan shellers’ strike of 1938 and the Jobs with Justice march led by Nacogdoches…
The Women on The Bus
The Women on the Bus by Anne Lewis January 19, 2017 at midnight, fifty-seven women met on a ranch outside Austin, Texas for a thirty-hour bus ride to the Women's…
Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
Anne Braden: Southern Patriot in partnership with Mimi Pickering and produced with Appalshop is finished. DVD's are available from Appalshop and California Newsreel. Clips screened at the historic 2010 US Social Forum in Detroit are included…
His Eye Is On The Sparrow
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…
Shelter
SHELTER Remastered 2008, 2001, 56:40 In 1974, three women opened the first shelter for battered women in this country. A grassroots movement not only saved lives but changed the way we…
To Save the Land and People
TO SAVE THE LAND AND PEOPLE Remastered 2009, 1999, 56:40 The Appalachian Group to Save the Land and People used every means possible, from legal petitions to guns and dynamite, to…
Rough Side of the Mountain
ROUGH SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN 1999, 56:40 Community organizing and the "steel ceiling" encountered by two company towns -- Trammel and Ivanhoe, Virginia -- as they struggle to develop new economies.…
Evelyn Williams
EVELYN WILLIAMS 1995, 26:40 Coal miner’s daughter and wife, mother of nine, domestic worker and community organizer whose awareness of class and race oppression led her to a lifetime of activism.…