Appalachia : rich land, poor people

Duration: 0:59:00

Genre: Documentary | Educational

Year Published: 1968

Creator: Indiana University Audio-Visual Center: Distributor | National Educational Television: Distributor

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Copyright: Registered 11Nov68 · MP20267 (Jan-Jun 1970) Copyright holder: National Educational Television & Radio Center

Description: Contrasts a land rich with coal, with the poverty of the residents who are denied adequate food, housing, and medical care. Focuses upon Eastern Kentucky where mechanization of the mines is replacing people and jobs. Credits a lack of education and other working skills, combined with a hostile reaction to outsider help by mine owners and other members of the local society as contributing to the problem., Contrasts a land rich with coal, with the poverty of the residents who are denied adequate fod, fousing, and medical care. Focuses upon Eastern Kentucky where mechanization of the mines is replacing people and jobs. Lack of education and working skills make residents prisoners of the land.

Complete Record: , Discusses the poverty and problems of Appalachia, explaining that the land is rich with coal, yet its residents are denied adequate food, housing, and medical care. Focuses upon eastern Kentucky where mechanization of the mines is replacing people and jobs. Uses interviews with a local family to show how a lack of education and working skills makes these residents prisioners of the land. , Contrasts a land rich with coal, with the poverty of the residents who are denied adequate food, housing, and medical care. Focuses upon Eastern Kentucky where mechanization of the mines is replacing people and jobs. Credits a lack of education and other working skills, combined with a hostile reaction to outsider help by mine owners and other members of the local society as contributing to the problem., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.