My parent's had to leave.

Janet is precious

Them kids are dirty from work

My Mom was raised dirt poor in 3 room clapboard shack in Richmond WV. They used to jump the coal trains and throw the coal off and the younger kids would follow behind with buckets picking up the coal to heat there house or they would have froze to death in the winter. My Grandfather was an alcoholic coal miner like most were back then. Christmas consisted of a stocking with an orange and a set of jacks if that. They had nothing. My grandmother died at 39 of lung cancer. My Grandfather jumped ship so my Mom became a Mom at 13 and raised her siblings from the ages of 9 months to 11 years. Her oldest brother went to work in the mines and supported them till welfare came and took all the kids away. My Mom was 15 when that happened. Her life was hard and heartbreaking. My Mom had very few happy childhood memories. All she ever remembered was working likes a dog trying to help keep food on the table and clothes on her siblings back. My mothers sister remembers when welfare came to take them she was so embarrassed. She didnt even have a pair of underwear. Imagine living like that. It was a horrific life. No child should have to endure that but most of my Mom's generation did just that if you lived in Appalachia.

This got to me. I agree the whiney kids today should watch this. The poor burro only ate scraps too 😥

50 years and counting. Nothing has changed.

Wish this wàs main stream media,most appalachians were poor,lived off the land,my family never had slaves,my family worked for everything they have..

Did I hear right? Mr & ,Mrs so and so...and THEIR 11 CHILDREN. smdh

Selling bootleg liquor? Well that’s how big daddy Joe Kennedy made his money along with the Seagrams family and every other now “legitimate” alcohol companies!! Just try getting those families to donate to these children! So hypocritical! Also, I defy any cops that live in these regions that would say they themselves haven’t partaken in this moonshine! Moonshine is the name because they had to make it at night before so the law could catch them! Why is it ok to make homemade wine? But not whiskey?

When the food supplies come, why do they say it came from the United States of American, are they not all in the same country? Fascinating watch, have seen plenty of these certainly is a different time. I'm use to seeing other races poor, but seeing white people poor seems wrong.

Damn the media was evil as fuck even back then

Most of them quit school in 2nd or 3rd grade cause they had to get married cause they had babys on the way.

May God Bless the fine folks of Appalachia’s mountains. Such good proud loving people. We appreciate your tenacity.

How my family grew up

I show these films to my students during our study of the many different cultures and the changing times of our world !... thank you

At least they didn't have to worry about their kids walking to school on those roads, and they are singing Christmas carols which today they can't mention Christ the saviour in the carols. And all the teacher worried about was keeping the school clean WOW, today teachers worry about a shooter. I say the country was much better then than it is today.

I remember in 5th grade when we discussed what kids were getting for Christmas and I realized for the first time that I was poor. Because what was a big family purchase for us (like a camera) that was saved for and hoping that no other expenses more urgent got in the way, other kids got for Christmas. These days, I am glad that I went through a childhood that had little in material things because I am happy with just the basics as an adult and that prevents me from overspending.

Wow. $56 a month food stamps for 4 children, a pregnant mother and the father.

Mr Mitchell the storekeeper 😭❤️ What a sweet man.

I don't understand why it seems that these people have soooo many children knowing their situation. It is so unfair to those children!!

I enjoyed watching this documentary, thank you for sharing.

Don't see any white privilege here.

Janets mama is so sweet.

Powerful film but poor quality. I was especially interested in life of IB Johnson, nice looking, hard working man. Seemed intelligent and I wondered why he could not find work in Florida or Georgia as a young single man? There was plenty of auto factory work in Ohio at that time too. Why return home with no prospects? And why only go to school through 4th grade-education is free. He could have least aimed for a GED. Education is the key to get out of poverty and you have to be willing to relocate. As a genealogist I was interested in him so looked up his name. Found an obituary of an “Ivan Berlin” I B Johnson, of Weeksbury KY, died in Dec 2019, said he was a disabled coal miner. His wife died in 2003. Listed his family in the obit, he was survived by 8 children and another died before him. They were scattered about, mostly in KY, one in Ohio. Looks like he stayed in Weeksbury all his life so he must have eventually got a coal mining job. I wondered if his family lived in poverty their entire life? Education is the key. I hope he was able to provide for his wife and big family. Don’t know why he got married with no money and no job but he looked like he really cared about his family. Hope his kids got a good education. Also saying if his 15 brothers and sisters, he had the highest amount of education and that was 4th grade? Why would anyone let their kids drop out at 2nd or 3rd grade? I wonder if conditions have improved since 1965....drugs have taken their toll on Appalachia and that is very sad. I would have loved to see a follow up on this family, maybe 10 or 15 years later.

Holler, not Hollow

This will be many in America when automation takes over everything. The govt cant and wont take care of people. We have to take care of ourselves. Innovate your life now so that you can survive later.

@12:45 how many rabbits 🐇 did you kill (nun) how many did you see (nun) people killed the rabbits, squirrels 🐿, deer 🦌 and just about everything else out.

Permanently Poor, Permanently True, even in 2020.

Amen

I truly enjoyed watching this. Thank you for sharing.

I.B. Johnson's obituary. He never did get out of that holler. www.nelsonfrazierfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Ivan-Berlin-IB-Johnson?obId=3989873

Even today it's still the same old question the world over......If you are that poor why keep having so many children?

So much class this Mother has. Bless her!

Welfare destroyed these people just like it destroyed minorities in the city.

I’m calling BS on there being tens of thousands of roads in those states

I see something beautiful in these people, something absent in anyone else currently, all around me. Talk about disturbing. I don't believe the mirror will help me much.

And this kids was how life used to be, simple, reflective and basic.

I was raised liked and like this and lived that way for 30 years ,we were clean never went hungry , used to make pull candy for Christmas and divinity, had fried rabbit leather britches beans ,sweet potatoes and sourdough bread and pumpkin pie , never missed church!! I miss that life was much better than now we had handme down toys but we didn't know ,had a full house! best years of my life !

Wish I could find a better quality of this.

We'd go into the woods and gather walnuts. My brother and sister would crack them and mom and I picked them out. We had candy with nuts all winter long. We were poor but the most precious memories of childhood was the understanding and sharing we learned from being poor. Our yard had peach trees, one neighbor had a garden, another a cherry tree, another a mulberry bush. We respected the neighbors things so fences weren't necessary. We asked permission to enjoy the fruits and respected their answers. Pretty good times.

These are trump supporters. These people just plain and simple folks just looking for hope. Then you have a big shot out of new York offering hope to these simple minded people. Sorry no point intent I mean that. I just feel so bad for them because they seem like nice people who just want some help and hope for the young ones growing up.

Same today there. Government dont care. Unreal.

So many of these folks have been convinced to vote against their own interest. If hard work equaled financial success there wouldn’t hardly be a poor person in the mountains.

I grew up in SE Kentucky and I was blessed to have a working Father and Grandfather. They got out and found jobs and worked hard. You have to be a bit industrious in order to survive in that area.

The attitude is familiar to me. Loretta Lynn once said of living in the KY mountains, "there's coal mining, moon shining, and moving on." A lot of people left the area, including me.

Isn't it incredible to see and examine how Capitalism and Baptist Evangelical Christianity have collaborated over the centuries in this country in order to keep certain demographics of its citizens poor, starving and desperate? I'd invite anyone who viewed that KZbin feature as I did to now listen to this podcast episode to contrast and compare perspectives about the intersection of "morality", religion, politics, governing & the economy during the 1930's in rural Southern America and how a new understanding of macroeconomics and how the Green New Deal could re-shape America for the foreseeable future: "In this episode of Money on the Left, we speak with historian Alison Collis Greene about her book *No Depression in Heaven* with an eye toward contemporary debates around the Green New Deal. Subtitled *The Great Depression, the New Deal, and the Transformation of Religion in the Delta,* Alison’s book critiques what she calls the 'myth of the redemptive depression' which, particularly in the American south, eroded the legacy of the original New Deal by affirming regressive fantasies of self-help and individualism. Many on the left today see the 'New Deal' framing of contemporary social and ecological politics as a concession to liberal nostalgia. However, *No Depression in Heaven* reminds us that right-wing and religious dismissals of the New Deal played a key part in rolling back government provisioning under neoliberalism. From our perspective, then, the original New Deal remains a crucial rhetorical battleground for the future of American political economy." mronline.org/2019/10/15/no-depression-in-heaven-with-alison-collis-greene/

RIP, Charles Kuralt.

Ollie and Janice baker is my aunt and cousin

THESE are Hillary Clinton's 'deplorables'.

Do these communities still exist now?,!