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.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublication details: San Francisco : California Newsreel, [200-?], 1999.Description: 1 videodisc (56 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
Other title:
  • Sometimes I am haunted by memories of red dirt and clay
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 305.9/63/08996 22
LOC classification:
  • E185.86 .H72 200z
Production credits:
  • 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).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.
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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).

Photography, Michele Crenshaw ; editor, Kim Mayhorn ; music, Dwight Andrews.

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.

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