Who Needs People?

Focuses on the struggle by the poor people living in eastern Kentucky to prevent strip miners from operating in the area during the 1960s. Resistance shown by the residents to the plan of getting them out of area in order to further strip mining activity; Effort of the Southern Conference Educational Fund Inc. to organize people in a grass-roots movement against strip mining; Outcome of the government programs aimed at reviving the depressed region of Appalachia; Drawbacks to the proposed scheme wherein the authorities will raise money by selling tax-exempt bonds and with the proceeds get the land back from the absentee landowners in the area.