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Lay My Burden Down

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1950s
0:59:38
United States of America
Lay My Burden Down. US Civil rights documentary.
Physical formats available:
Mini DV
Digital formats available:
MPEG-4 AVC
Audio & visual:
Sound, Black & White

Captures the end of 100 years of Black sharecroppers and tenant farmers in the rural south who have been forced off the land and into tent cities in Alabama and Mississippi in the wake of the civil rights movement and the Voting Rights Act. It shows the beginnings of the Black Power Movement, with Stokely Carmichael, in Lowndes County, Alabama. EMMY NOMINEE, CINE GOLD EAGLE, BROTHERHOOD AWARD NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS. SHOWN AT NY FILM FESTIVAL.

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Stock Footage, B-roll, Newsreels
(138)
A collection of various newsreels B-roll, out-takes from the early 20th Century through to the 1980s, from Europe, Cuba, South and North America, Africa.