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Appalshop Films at
(800) 545-7467, FAX: 606-633-1009 <dreynolds@appalshop.org> or
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APPALSHOP
Appalshop is an award-winning media arts and cultural center located in Whitesburg, Kentucky, created in 1969 as a program of the War on Poverty to train local young people in media production skills.
APPALACHIAN REGIONAL COMMISSION
The Appalachian Regional Commission partners with the people of Appalachia to promote economic development and improved quality of life. For a comparative analysis of Appalachia in the 1960s and the 1990s go to the Regional Research and Reports page and read "Appalachia Then and Now: An Update of 'The Realities of Deprivation' Reported to the President in 1964".
U.S. CENSUS BUREAU/CENSUS HISTORICAL POVERTY TABLE
Comparative statistics about US poverty status in 1969, 1979 and 1989, tabulated by state.
KENTUCKY COMMISSION ON POVERTY
A 1996 in-depth report by Kentucky's Blue Ridge Institute addresses the myths about poverty in the region. Includes data on children, seniors and African-Americans, shown in tables and graphs.
PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S 1964 "WAR ON POVERTY" SPEECH
Read the text of Lyndon B. Johnson's famous speech that launched the campaign to create a "Great Society" in which poverty would be eliminated.
FRIENDS OF VISTA
A brief history of Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), the domestic volunteer service program developed as part of the War on Poverty.
RELATED FILMS
FILMS BY HUGH O'CONNOR
A selected filmography of the Canadian filmmaker who lost his life in Letcher County in 1967, in the online catalog of the National Film Board of Canada.
AMERICA'S WAR ON POVERTY
An award-winning television series that provides an historical overview and detailed analysis of the War on Poverty. Henry Hampton, executive producer; Terry Kay Rockefeller, series producer.
HARLAN COUNTY, USA
Barbara Kopple directed this Academy Award-winning documentary about the efforts of 180 coal mining families to win a United Mine Workers contract in Harlan County, Kentucky in 1973. A moving portrait of courage.
MATEWAN
Writer-director John Sayles recreates the life and labor conditions of a West Virginia coal mining town in the 1920s, where union organizing led to the infamous shoot-out known as the Matewan Massacre.
SALT OF THE EARTH
Blacklisted during the McCarthy Era, this docudrama portrays Mexican and Mexican American zinc workers on strike in New Mexico in the 1950s. A classic, directed by Herbert J. Biberman.
To purchase or rent the last three films in this list, see the online catalog of nonprofit FACETS VIDEO
- one of the nation's largest distributors of foreign, classic, cult, art, and hard-to-find videos.
RADIO
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INTERVIEW WITH ELIZABETH BARRET
NPR host Bob Edwards talks to filmmaker Elizabeth Barret about STRANGER
WITH A CAMERA and its theatrical debut at the Sundance Film Festival. January 27, 2000.
BOOKS & ARTICLES
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
by James Agee and Walker Evans. (Original edition, 1941). Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
Recognized by the New York Public Library as one of the most influential books of the century - a modern American literary classic about rural poverty in America.
Night Comes to the Cumberlands; A Biography of a Depressed Area
by Harry M. Caudill. Atlantic Monthly Press, 1963.
A widely acclaimed book which was instrumental in calling attention to the economic and social problems of eastern Kentucky and Appalachia in the 1960s.
"A Stranger with a Camera"
by Calvin Trillin. The New Yorker, April 29, 1969.
The journalistic account upon which the film STRANGER WITH A CAMERA is based.
"Recycling Kentucky"
by Bobbie Ann Mason. The New Yorker, November 1, 1993.
A thoughtful analysis of public reaction to the Pulitzer Prize-winning play "The Kentucky Cycle" and the issues of artistic license and cultural representation that it revived for Kentuckians.
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