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Arc of justice : the rise, fall and rebirth of a beloved community / Open Studio Productions ; produced and directed by Helen S. Cohen & Mark Lipman ; co-producer, John Emmeus Davis.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 033 673
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- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- New Communities, Inc.
- African Americans--Suffrage--Georgia.
- African Americans.
- Collective farms--Georgia.
- Collective farms.
- Collective settlements--Georgia.
- Collective settlements.
- African Americans--Land tenure.
- African American farmers--Georgia.
- African American farmers.
- African Americans--Georgia--Economic conditions.
- Civil rights demonstrations--Georgia--Albany.
- Civil rights demonstrations.
- African Americans--History--1877-1964.
- History.
- African Americans--History--1964-.
- African Americans--Civil rights--History.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- Land tenure--Georgia--History.
- Land tenure.
- Rural conditions.
- Economic conditions.
- African Americans--Suffrage.
- Georgia--Rural conditions--History.
- Georgia.
- African American.
- African Americans--Economic conditions.
- Suffrage.
- Georgia--Albany.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- History.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (22 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Rise, fall and rebirth of a beloved community
- Place of Publication:
- [Harriman, N.Y.] : New Day Films, [2016]
- Language Note:
- In English with optional Spanish subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and heaing impaired; closed captioned.
- System Details:
- DVD, Dolby Digital 2.0, 5.1.
- digital
- optical
- mixed
- Dolby digital 2.0
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Traces the remarkable journey of New Communities, Inc. and the struggle for racial justice and economic empowerment among African Americans in southwest Georgia. NCI was created in 1969 in Albany, Georgia by leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, including Congressman John Lewis, and Charles and Shirley Sherrod, to help secure economic independence for African American families. For 15 years, NCI cooperatively farmed nearly 6,000 acres, the largest tract of land in the United States owned by African Americans at the time, but racist opposition prevented them from implementing plans to build 500 affordable homes as part of their community land trust. Unable to secure government loans to cope with the impact of successive years of drought, NCI lost the land to foreclosure in 1985. But 25 years later it was given new life as a result of a successful and little-known class action lawsuit brought by hundreds of African American farmers against the U.S. Department of Agriculture for loan discrimination. With the settlement, the original founders purchased a 1,600-acre plantation once owned by the largest slave owner and richest man in Georgia. NCI is now growing pecans and using the antebellum mansion on the property as a retreat and training center, still committed to its original mission of promoting racial justice and economic development.
- Participant:
- Shirley Sherrod, Charles Sherrod, John Lewis.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Rick Butler ; editor/sound recordist, Mark Lipman ; music, Tom Philips (OBT Music), Charles Sherrod & Emory Harris, Southwest Georgia Project singers.
- ISBN:
- 9781574484151
- 157448415X
- OCLC:
- 962466601
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