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Homecoming : sometimes I am haunted by memories of red dirt and clay / produced and directed by Charlene Gilbert ; KinFolk Productions, Inc. in association with Independent Television Service.

Format Video (DVD)
Publication InfoSan Francisco : California Newsreel, [between 2000 and 2009?], 1999.
Description1 videodisc (56 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Subject(s)
DVD-Video discs.
Agriculture--Southern States --History.
Agriculture--Economic aspects --Southern States --History.
Family farms--Southern States --History.
African American farmers--Southern States --History.
Land tenure--Southern States --History.
African Americans--Civil rights --Southern States --History.
Agricultural cooperative credit associations--Southern States --History.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
African Americans--Economic conditions.
African American farmers--Southern States.
African Americans--History --20th century.
African Americans--Land tenure.
Other author/creatorGilbert, Charlene.
Other author/creatorDarling, Marsha J. Tyson (Marsha Jean Tyson)
Other author/creatorDaniel, Pete.
Other author/creatorWarren, James, 1974-
Other author/creatorHardin, Clifford M. (Clifford Morris), 1915-2010.
Other author/creatorBrowne, Robert.
Other author/creatorHamer, Fannie Lou.
Other author/creatorKinFolk Productions, Inc.
Other author/creatorCalifornia Newsreel (Firm)
Other author/creatorIndependent Television Service.
Portion of title Sometimes I am haunted by memories of red dirt and clay
Abstract 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.
CreditsPhotography, Michele Crenshaw ; editor, Kim Mayhorn ; music, Dwight Andrews.
Performer 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).
Technical detailsDVD.
LanguageClosed captioned.
Genre/formDocumentary videos.
Genre/formVideo recordings for the hearing impaired.

Available Items

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner Compact DVDs E185.86 .H72 1999 DVD ✔ Available Place Hold
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