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Southern rites / Women Make Movies ; HBO Documentary Films presents a Group Effort Films production ; a film by Gillian Laub ; directed and produced by Gillian Laub; written and produced by Josh Alexander.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American police--Georgia--Mount Vernon (Montgomery County).
- African American police.
- Segregation--Georgia--Mount Vernon (Montgomery County).
- Segregation.
- Racism--Georgia--Mount Vernon (Montgomery County).
- Racism.
- Mount Vernon (Montgomery County, Ga.)--Race relations.
- Mount Vernon (Montgomery County, Ga.).
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (87 min.)) : sound, color
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, New York] : Women Make Movies, [2015]
- Language Note:
- Closed captioning available.
- System Details:
- System requirements: An Internet browser with HTML5 support.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- The feature documentary visits Montgomery County, Georgia, one year after the town merged its racially divided proms, and during an historic election campaign that many hoped would lead to its first African-American sheriff. Photographer Gillian Laub, whose photographs of earlier segregated proms brought the area unwanted notoriety after being published in the New York Times Magazine returns to the town of Mount Vernon, GA.
- Credits:
- Editing, Nancy Novack, Joel Plotch ; director of photographer, Gillian Laub ; music, Joel Goodman.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed June 18, 2024).
- Publisher Number:
- wm-srites Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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