TY - ADVS AU - Gilbert,Charlene AU - Darling,Marsha J.Tyson AU - Daniel,Pete AU - James,Warren AU - Hardin,Clifford M. AU - Browne,Robert AU - Hamer,Fannie Lou ED - Kinfolk Productions. ED - California Newsreel (Firm) ED - Independent Television Service. TI - Homecoming: sometimes I am haunted by memories of red dirt and clay AV - E185.86 .H72 200z U1 - 305.9/63/08996 22 PY - 2000///?], 1999 CY - San Francisco PB - California Newsreel KW - Agriculture KW - Southern States KW - History KW - Economic aspects KW - Family farms KW - African American farmers KW - Land tenure KW - African Americans KW - Civil rights KW - Agricultural cooperative credit associations KW - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) KW - Economic conditions KW - 20th century KW - fast KW - United States KW - Documentary videos KW - Documentary films KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired KW - lcgft N1 - Photography, Michele Crenshaw ; editor, Kim Mayhorn ; music, Dwight Andrews; 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) N2 - 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 ER -