Evelyn Williams materials, c.1995
Sub-Series (ap.afc.07.17)
- Extent
- 54 Video cassettes
- 8 Photo prints
- 1 Boxes
- Part of
- Appalshop Films Collection, 1969-2015 > Series VII. Appalshop Films 1991-1999 > Evelyn Williams materials, c.1995
- Scope and Contents
- Contains material related to the color documentary Evelyn Williams, a 1995 release. The film is a portrait of Evelyn Williams, an Appalachian African American and activist. Williams is interviewed about her childhood in the 1920s in Kentucky, recollections of cross-burnings by the Ku Klux Klan and a lynching, her marriage to a coal miner, her work cleaning the homes of coal company officials, and her subsequent move to New York and education at the New School for Social Research. The film chronicles her contemporary work with Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, an environmental group, to protest oil and gas company use of the broadform deed to drill on surface owners’ land in eastern Kentucky. Subjects include Appalachian African American women, race relations, civil rights community activism, environmental justice, coal mines, and environmental conditions of the Appalachian region.