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Pub. Date
[1939]
Language
English
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Description
This 1939 musical about plantation life in the antebellum South features lyrics by the great African-American poet Langston Hughes. The movie is a curious period piece with a somewhat unrealistic attitude toward the treatment of African-American slaves, but the perspective is fascinating and the music and singing memorable.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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Description
Using exclusive interviews and spanning half a decade, The Cheshire Murders reveals the shocking police failures and untold personal dramas behind the notorious rape-arson-homicide case that shook Cheshire, Connecticut in the summer of 2007. In this quiet, bedroom suburb, Jennifer Petit and her two daughters, age 11 and 17, were killed in a home invasion gone horribly wrong; husband and father William Petit was the only member of the family who escaped...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In 1964, a mob of Klansmen murdered three civil rights workers in the small Mississippi county of Neshoba (a crime that came to be known as the "Mississippi Burning" murders). These young men, two Jews from New York and an African-American from Mississippi, were in the Deep South helping register African-American voters during what became known as "Freedom Summer." Although the Klansmen bragged about what they did, no one was held accountable for...
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