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Come hell or high water : the battle for Turkey Creek / a film by Leah Mahan ; producer, director, cinematographer, Leah Mahan ; producer and editor, Jane Greenberg ; a coproduction of Zamler Productions LLC and the Independent Television Service (ITVS) ; produced in association with Mississippi Public Broadcasting.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Evans, Derrick.
- Environmental justice--Mississippi--Gulfport.
- Environmental justice.
- African American cemeteries--Mississippi--Gulfport.
- African American cemeteries.
- Historic sites--Mississippi--Gulfport.
- Historic sites.
- Racism--United States.
- Racism.
- African Americans.
- Social conditions.
- United States.
- African Americans--Mississippi--Gulfport--Social conditions.
- Mississippi--Gulfport.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (56 min.) : digital, sound, color
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Battle for Turkey Creek
- Place of Publication:
- [Oley, Pennsylvania] : [Distributed by] Bullfrog Films, [2015]
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- Follows the painful but inspiring journey of Derrick Evans, a Boston teacher who moves home to coastal Mississippi when the graves of his ancestors are bulldozed to make way for the sprawling city of Gulfport. Over the course of a decade, Derrick and his neighbors stand up to powerful corporate interests and politicians and face ordeals that include Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil disaster in their struggle for self-determination and environmental justice.
- Participant:
- Featuring Derrick Evans.
- Credits:
- Co-editors, William A. Anderson and Dawn Logsdon ; composer, Derrick Hodge.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: Zamler Productions, c2013; previously released in 2014.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed July 16, 2015).
- Publisher Number:
- bf-chow Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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