Mountain Majesty (AMI)

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Identifier
000024069
Alt Identifier
ami.2009.5
Asset Type
Description (Doris Shephard, Donna Melton, Lucille Boggs, Beth Bingman, Amelia Kirby, Nancy Kelly Allen, Alice Whitaker, and Alice Slone discuss local people's land being bought up and strip mined, people's relationship with their land, and different modes of resistance to coal companies' efforts to take over land. Includes footage from the Appalshop film To Save the Land and People (1999). 

Produced by Meghan Sexton, Courtney Worley, Marlena Branson, and Tiffany Dixon)
Doris Shephard, Donna Melton, Lucille Boggs, Beth Bingman, Amelia Kirby, Nancy Kelly Allen, Alice Whitaker, and Alice Slone discuss local people's land being bought up and strip mined, people's relationship with their land, and different modes of resistance to coal companies' efforts to take over land. Includes footage from the Appalshop film To Save the Land and People (1999). 

Produced by Meghan Sexton, Courtney Worley, Marlena Branson, and Tiffany Dixon
Subjects
Strip Mining/Surface Mining, Coal mining
Related Collection
Appalachian Media Institute collection
Related Work
To Save the Land and People (describes)