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The intolerable burden / Public Domain Inc. and the Center for the Study of Southern Culture present a Blue Stream Productions film ; directed and edited by Chea Prince ; produced by Constance Curry.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Carter family.
- Carter, Mae Bertha, 1923-1999.
- Carter, Mae Bertha.
- School integration--Mississippi--Drew.
- School integration.
- Segregation in education--Law and legislation--Mississippi--Drew.
- Segregation in education.
- African Americans--Education--Mississippi--Drew.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Education.
- Segregation in education--Law and legislation.
- Drew (Miss.)--Race relations.
- Drew (Miss.).
- Mississippi--Drew.
- Genre:
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (56 min.) : digital, sound, color with black & white sequences
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Brooklyn, New York] : [Distributed by] Icarus Films, [2015]
- Language Note:
- Closed captioning available.
- 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:
- Documentary film of how Mae Bertha and Matthew Carter enrolled the youngest eight of their thirteen children in the public schools of Drew, Mississippi in 1965, which were all white. The Drew school board had initiated a "freedom of choice" plan to bring the district in compliance with the 1964 Civil Rights Act, but Blacks were not expected to choose all white schools.
- Credits:
- Music supervisor, Thom Watson.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Previously released in 2003.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed June 22, 2015).
- Publisher Number:
- if-into Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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