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Finally Got the News
This Far by Faith
Call Number: V 096Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Two documentaries. The first, "Finally Got the News," is about the League of Revolutionary Black Workers and the formation of The Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM). The founders of the movement discuss the economic injustices and racism that lie at the heart of the American economic system. Filmed in Detroit with footage from the late '60s and early '70s, there are interviews with Marxist/Leninist socialists and radical organizers. It is the story of the black poor working on the production lines, underpaid and overworked, organize and fight for better wages and reasonable hours. Claims it is propaganda that keeps white and black poor workers enemies. The film is grainy and shot in black and white but is well organized and contains great dialogue and images of industrial America and factory life. The second, "This Far by Faith," is about the 1990 Delta Pride Catfish processing plant strike in Indianola, Mississippi- a struggle that ended in settlement and resulted in higher wages and more benefits for its workers. The majority of workers and strikers are single black women. They discuss the oppressive and dangerous working conditions, long hours, frequency of carpel tunnel, racial slurs and insubstantial wages endured at the factory. Footage of strikers at the picket line and interviews with civil rights leaders who discuss the meaning of this strike in the context of Mississippi's economically depressed and brutal slave-owning past.
Freedom Bound
Call Number: V 728Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Freedom Bound tells the story of the SNCC voter registration campaign in Mississippi in 1963. Through interviews with poor black farmers who risked everything to register to vote, the film conveys the courage, determination and sacrifice which the common people of the South used to help end racial segregation. Containing much of the same interviews as We'll Never Turn Back, this film features rare footage of SNCC volunteers telling their stories of crossing the color line in rural Mississippi.
We'll Never Turn Back
Call Number: V 729Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
We'll Never Turn Back was filmed in Mississippi in 1963 during the dangerous voter registration drives of that era. Appearing in the film are Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) leaders Bob Moses and Julian Bond, as well as local civil rights leaders Curtis Hayes, Hollis Watkins, Amzie Moore and E.W. Steptoe. There are interviews with black farmers and share croppers, including Fannie Lou Hamer, on their experiences (often bloody) trying to register to vote.
Dream Deferred
Call Number: V 731Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Dream Deferred was produced by SNCC for its southern voter registration drive in 1964, the year of the Mississippi Summer. It contains interviews with activists, voter registrants and leaders, and features Fannie Lou Hamer's speech, including her famous line: "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired."
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