On Our Own Land materials, c.1988
Sub-Series (ap.afc.06.23)
- Extent
- 45 Video cassettes
- 3 Photo prints
- 1 Boxes
- Part of
- Appalshop Films Collection, 1969-2015 > Series VI. Appalshop Films/Headwaters Television, 1984-1990 > On Our Own Land materials, c.1988
- Scope and Contents
- Contains material related to the color documentary On Our Own Land, a 1988 release. The film explores the effects in Appalachia of the “broad form deed,” a 100-year old legal provision that separates the ownership of mineral rights from ownership of the surface land, and enables mineral deed owners to perform strip mining without the consent of surface owners. The film documents the efforts of a group of Kentucky citizens to have the broad form deed declared unconstitutional in the state of Kentucky. Subjects include mineral rights, the coal trade in Appalachia, Kentucky politics and government, and community activism.
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