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  [Prologue High School: Coal Mining Mural 2]

  Chicago, CLIR, CTVN, Guerrilla Television

  Interviews and musical performances celebrating Appalachian culture in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood alongside the unveiling of a student-painted mural depicting coal miners.

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  [Prologue High School: Coal Mining Mural 1]

  Chicago, CLIR, CTVN, Guerrilla Television

  An interview with Marion Kline, a former coal miner who moved to Chicago after retirement, conducted at an event celebrating Appalachian culture in Uptown and the unveiling of a mural based on Kline’s experiences.

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  [Prologue High School: Coal Mining Mural 3]

  Chicago, CLIR, CTVN, Guerrilla Television

  Interviews with high school students at Prologue High School who painted a mural depicting the struggles of coal miners, as well as with former coal miners who have relocated to Chicago.

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  [Newcomb residents at the capitol]

  Appalshop, CLIR, Guerrilla Television

  Residents of rural Tennessee share stories of the damage caused by strip mining to their homes and their communities with governor Ray Blanton in an office of the state capital in Nashville. Likely recorded on April 8, 1975 during a rally for the “Save Our Cumberland Mountains” campaign.

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  Question of the Week: Strip-Mining in Tennesee

  Appalshop, CLIR, Guerrilla Television

  An episode of panel talk show ‘Question of the Week’ in which residents of rural Tennessee discuss the effects of strip mining by the AMAX Coal Company on their community.

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  [Save Our Cumberland Mountains Rally, Nashville 1]

  Appalshop, CLIR, Guerrilla Television

  An anti-strip mining rally in Nashville organized by SOCM, Save Our Cumberland Mountains, on April 8, 1975.

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  [Strip Mining interviews]

  Appalshop, CLIR, Guerrilla Television

  Interviews with inhabitants of a rural mountain about the devastation caused by strip mining to their land and to their community.

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  [Save Our Cumberland Mountains Rally, Nashville 2]

  Appalshop, CLIR, Guerrilla Television, Outside Agitators, Politics

  An anti-strip mining rally in Nashville organized by SOCM, Save Our Cumberland Mountains. The group attempts to meet with Governor Ray Blanton but is only granted a meeting with his aide, James Allen.