Web site: www.appalshop.org
Details
Episode description: Traces the remarkable evolution of shelters for battered women and gives voice to five women seeking protection in a rural West Virginia shelter. Working with advice and guidance from the shelter's counselors and staff, the women struggle to find safety, freedom, and justice for themselves and their children. Two founders of the shelter movement discuss its history, and Tillie Black Bear from the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota describes establishing the first shelter for women of color. [cc]
Rating: [TV-G] (General Audience)
Series Information: Headwaters: Real Stories from Rural America
TV Schedule
Upcoming Airdates:
- KETKY: Sunday, July 21 at 1:00 pm EDT
- KETKY: Thursday, July 25 at 6:00 am EDT
- KETKY: Saturday, July 27 at 3:00 pm EDT
Past Airdates:
- KETKY: Saturday, March 30, 2013 at 2:00 pm EST
- KETKY: Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 5:00 am EST
- KETKY: Sunday, March 24, 2013 at noon EST
- KETKY: Saturday, November 24, 2012 at 3:00 pm EST
- KETKY: Thursday, November 22, 2012 at 6:00 am EST
First aired: Monday, June 16, 2003 (excluding any air dates prior to June 1999)
Links
Official web site: www.appalshop.org