You Got to Move

The film "You Got to Move" (1985) follows people from communities in the Southern United States as they become involved in social change, centered around the Highlander Folk School. The documentary features Bernice Robinson, who became a literacy teacher on Johns Island, and explores her experiences teaching adults to read and write; Bill Saunders, a former mattress factory worker turned community radio station operator, who fought for hospital workers' rights; Rebecca Simpson, a woman who successfully reclaimed land in Kentucky affected by strip-mining abuses; Gail Story and MaryLee Rogers, two housewives from Tennessee who organized community action against hazardous chemical dumping; and Myles Horton, one of the founders of Highlander Folk School.