Homecoming : sometimes I am haunted by memories of red dirt and clay

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Homecoming : sometimes I am haunted by memories of red dirt and clay
Title remainder
sometimes I am haunted by memories of red dirt and clay
Statement of responsibility
produced and directed by Charlene Gilbert ; KinFolk Productions, Inc. in association with Independent Television Service
Title variation
Sometimes I am haunted by memories of red dirt and clay
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Genre
Language
eng
Summary
A documentary film exploring the history of ownership of farm lands by African Americans from Reconstruction to the present day. Their struggle for land of their own pitted them against both the Southern white power structure and the federal agencies responsible for helping them. As part of Reconstruction, Congress alloted 45 million acres of land to former slaves but little land was ever actually distributed. Despite formidable obstacles one million African Americans, mostly former sharecroppers, managed to purchase over 15 million acres of land by 1910
Cataloging source
WEA
Characteristic
videorecording
Credits note
Photography, Michele Crenshaw ; editor, Kim Mayhorn ; music, Dwight Andrews
Language note
Closed captioned
PerformerNote
Featuring Marsha Darling (Georgetown U.), Pete Daniel (author), Warren James (farmer), Ralph Paige (Federation of Southern Cooperatives), Clifford Hardin (USDA), Robert Browne (Emergency Land Fund), (voice of) Fannie Lou Hamer (activist), Shirley Sherrod (Fed. of Southern Cooperatives), Lynmore James (Georgia representative), Neal Leonard (Farm Service Agency)
Runtime
56
Technique
live action

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