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The other side of Eden : stories of a Virginia lynching / a film by Tom Davenport with Dylan Nicholls, Shawn Nicholls ; a Folkstreams.net Production.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 031 701
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- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lynching--Virginia--Fauquier County--History.
- Lynching.
- Race relations.
- History.
- Virginia, Northern--Race relations.
- Virginia, Northern.
- Northern Virginia.
- Virginia--Fauquier County.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Feature films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (59 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Virginia] : Folkstreams, [2018]
- Language Note:
- In English with occasional subtitles in English.
- System Details:
- DVD-R, NTSC, Region 1; widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio) presentation.
- digital
- optical
- widescreen (1.85:1)
- NTSC
- video file DVD-R video region 1
- Summary:
- Explores why Shedrick Thompson, a black tenant farmer in Northern Virginia, beat a white landowner unconscious and kidnapped his wife. Two months after the event, his decomposed body was found hanging from a tree -- a death that was officially pronounced a suicide, but was more commonly known as the last lynching in Virginia.
- Participant:
- Correspondent, Jim Hall.
- Notes:
- Title from title framse.
- Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 2017.
- OCLC:
- 1066345317
- Publisher Number:
- 888295787291
- 9781885223968
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