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Southern rites / HBO Documentary Films presents a Group Effort Films production ; in asssociation with Get LIfted Film Co. and Atom Factory ; produced by John Legend, Josh Alexander ; directed and produced by Gillian Laub ; written by Josh Alexander.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American police--Georgia--Mount Vernon (Montgomery County).
- African American police.
- Mount Vernon (Montgomery County, Ga.)--Race relations.
- Mount Vernon (Montgomery County, Ga.).
- Race relations.
- Georgia--Mount Vernon (Montgomery County).
- Genre:
- Documentary television programs.
- Nonfiction television programs.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (87 minutes)) : sound, color
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : Women Make Movies, [2015]
- System Details:
- digital
- Summary:
- SOUTHERN RITES is a powerful portrayal of how perceptions and politics have divided two towns in southeast Georgia along racial lines for years. In 2009, The New York Times Magazine published filmmaker and acclaimed photographer Gillian Laub's controversial images of Montgomery County High School's racially segregated proms. A media furor ensued and under extreme pressure, the Georgian town was forced to finally integrate the proms in 2010. Laub returned camera in hand to document the changes, only to stumble upon a series of events far more indicative of race relations in the Deep South: old wounds are reopened following the murder of an unarmed young black man by an elderly white town patriarch. Against the backdrop of an historic campaign to elect its first African-American sheriff, the case divides locals along well-worn racial lines and threatens to drag the town back to darker days.
- Credits:
- Editor, Nancy Novack, Joel Plotch ; director of photographer, Gillian Laub ; original music, Joel Goodman.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from title screen (viewed on May 17, 2023).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Maryann B. Sudo CW'63 and John B. Baxter, Jr., American History Fund.
- OCLC:
- 1350536105
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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