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Evelyn Williams

This documentary film is a portrait of eighty-year-old Evelyn Williams and her fight to preserve her land in Kentucky from an oil and gas company. She was inspired by her grandfather, an ex-slave, who once said, "as long as you have land, you have a belonging." Evelyn has been an environmental, civil, and women's rights activist her entire life. In settings from her Kentucky mountainside to Brooklyn, New York, Evelyn eloquently relates her personal experiences. She reminisces of being born a second-generation slave in Kingston, Tennessee in 1915, the profound effect witnessing a Klu Klux Klan Rally had on her life, and some of the conditions under which black miners had to work. Evelyn speaks of segregation in her hometown, how people worked to counteract this injustice, and the challenges of her life as a young wife. Her family also encountered obstacles as one of the first black families to move into Brooklyn.

DATE: 1995

TOPICS:
Biography, History,
Multi-Ethnic/Cross-Cultural, Rural America

CREDITS:
Producer: Appalshop Film & Video;
Director: Anne Lewis

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:
Color
28 minutes

 

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