The Harvest: Integrating Mississippi's Schools (2023) [N/A]
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Release Date:
September 12, 2023
Original Title:
The Harvest: Integrating Mississippi's Schools
Genres:
Documentary | History
Production Companies:
American Experience Films
Five Dollar Films
GBH
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 113
Planting seeds one classroom at a time.
In The Harvest, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Douglas A. Blackmon looks back at how school integration transformed his hometown of Leland, Mississippi. After the 1954 Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional, little more than token efforts were made to desegregate Southern schools. That changed dramatically on October 29, 1969, when the high court ordered that Mississippi schools to fully — and immediately — desegregate. As a result, a group of children, including six-year-old Blackmon, became part of the first class of Black and white children who would attend all 12 grades together in Leland.
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