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Running time. 89 minutes. Country. United States. Language. English. LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton is a 2001 American documentary film directed by Deborah Dickson, Susan Froemke, and Albert Maysles. It was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 74th Academy Awards. [1]
Jan 19, 2001 · LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton: Directed by Deborah Dickson, Susan Froemke, Albert Maysles. With Reggie Barnes, LaLee Wallace. This documentary follows a Mississippi Delta school district and a single Delta family as they struggle against the crippling effects of poverty in the wake of more than one hundred years of slavery.
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LALEE's KIN takes us deep into the Mississippi Delta and the intertwined lives of LaLee Wallace, a great-grandmother struggling to hold her world together in the face of dire poverty, and Reggie Barnes, superintendent of the embattled West Tallahatchie School System. The film explores the painful legacy of slavery and sharecropping in the Delta.
Jan 19, 2001 · Reviews 100% Audience Score 100+ Ratings "LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton" takes us deep into the Mississippi Delta and the intertwined lives of LaLee Wallace, a great-grandmother struggling to ...
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Jul 27, 2010 · The legacy of cotton referred to in the title is the continuation of the lack of availability of and emphasis on meaningful education for the poor, especially in the agricultural south. As a child, Lalee was expected to leave school at an early age to be in the fields picking cotton with the rest of her family.
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Brief Synopsis. A vicious cycle of poverty and illiteracy plagues the contemporary Mississippi Delta; the legacy of slavery, sharecropping and the cotton industry. In this setting, against imposing odds and extreme hardship, great-grandmother LaLee Wallace, head of the African-American Wallace family, struggles to.
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