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Freedom's Call
| Length: | 47 min |
| Released: | 2007 |
| Ages: |
High School College Adult |
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Two African-American journalists who covered the events of the civil rights movement in the fifties and sixties return to the deep South where it all took place. The journalists are Dorothy Gilliam,who later became first female African American reporter at The Washington Post, and Ernest Withers, renowned photographer whose photos were published in the black press, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. Their journey brings back memories of those turbulent times.
They travel to Memphis, Little Rock, Oxford, Jackson and the Mississippi Delta. Along the way they stop to meet with Minniejean Brown Trickey, one of The Little Rock Nine, and James Meredith, the first African-American to attend The University of Mississippi.
Photographs, newspaper clips and eyewitness accounts brings the heroic struggle alive, a struggle in which these two courageous journalists participated and recorded for posterity.
They travel to Memphis, Little Rock, Oxford, Jackson and the Mississippi Delta. Along the way they stop to meet with Minniejean Brown Trickey, one of The Little Rock Nine, and James Meredith, the first African-American to attend The University of Mississippi.
Photographs, newspaper clips and eyewitness accounts brings the heroic struggle alive, a struggle in which these two courageous journalists participated and recorded for posterity.
"brings to light an often overlooked part of the civil rights struggle--the work of black journalists who did their job while enduring racism and violence" William La Rue, The Post Standard
San Francisco Black Film Festival 2007
Crossroads Film Festival, Jackson, Miss., 2008
Buffalo Niagara Film Festival, 2008
Crossroads Film Festival, Jackson, Miss., 2008
Buffalo Niagara Film Festival, 2008
