Hard Times in the Country: The Schools
HARD TIMES IN THE COUNTRY: THE SCHOOLS 1988, 29:00 The impact of the War on Poverty on school systems in eastern Kentucky and describes how the solutions that were implemented --…
HARD TIMES IN THE COUNTRY: THE SCHOOLS 1988, 29:00 The impact of the War on Poverty on school systems in eastern Kentucky and describes how the solutions that were implemented --…
SO WAS EINSTEIN: A LOOK AT DYSLEXIC CHILDREN 1988, 29:00 Focuses on four students and their families and describes the guilt, frustration, and misunderstanding that often come with having dyslexia, and…
MUD CREEK CLINIC 28:30, 1987 Portrait of Eula Hall and a primary health clinic organized by a welfare rights organization in eastern Kentucky. "Eminently lucid and captivating....A sobering and compelling rendition…
MINE WAR ON BLACKBERRY CREEK 1986, 29:00 A report from the long and bitter United Mine Workers of America strike against the A.T. Massey Coal Company, a subsidiary of a multinational…
PEACE STORIES 1985, 29:00 Experiences of three veterans from the south who decided that war is wrong -- William Farmer, a World War I veteran; Connie Bowling who worked on the…
I'M WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT 1985, 29:00 with Mimi Pickering Parents in rural Lincoln County are shown fighting for equitable treatment of their children, for the preservation of community schools,…
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…
MABEL PARKER HARDISON SMITH 1985, 28:30 African-American teacher in the coalfields for 35 years and gospel musician. "Smith articulately recollects the life of a black miner’s family while archival and personal…
YELLOW CREEK, KENTUCKY 1984, 29:00 Documents the efforts of the Yellow Creek Concerned Citizens to stop a commercial tannery from dumping toxic wastes into the creek that flows through their…
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…