Appalachia Oral History Collection

Collection Id: 
OHApp
Description: 

Residents of Appalachia discuss their personal histories, the Brookside coal strike of 1974, the 1977 film "Harlan County, U.S.A.", the Kentucky Farmers Incorporated farm co-op, the Cranks Creek Survival Center, the Sharp family, Lee County politics, lesbians and gays in the mountains, and Green Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. Author Harriette Simpson Arnow is among those interviewed.

Themes:

LC Subjects:

Keywords:

  • Coal Mining
  • coal
  • Appalachia
  • Music
  • Immigration
  • Women
  • Religion
Master type: 
Audio
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