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40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks is the production company of Spike Lee, founded in 1979. The company name is a reference to the phrase most often used to refer to the early Reconstruction period policy and episode of events , in which certain recently emancipated black families on the Georgia coast were given lots of land no larger than 40 acres ...
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Jan 24, 2022 · EXCLUSIVE: After making a new overall deal at Netflix for his 40 Acres And A Mule Filmworks late last year, Spike Lee has set Steven Jackson to join his company in the post of Head of...
Who Came Up With the Idea? Here’s how this radical proposal — which must have completely blown the minds of the rebel Confederates — actually came about.
Forty acres and a mule was part of Special Field Orders No. 15, a wartime order proclaimed by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman on January 16, 1865, during the American Civil War, to allot land to some freed families, in plots of land no larger than 40 acres (16 ha).
Jun 13, 2024 · 40 Acres and a Lie tells the history of an often-misunderstood government program that gave formerly enslaved people land titles after the Civil War.
Aug 10, 2022 · A 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks Production (1989) From the end of the 2019 Criterion Collection Blu-ray release of Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing (1989), remastered from a 4K scan....
May 20, 2024 · 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks is the production company of director Spike Lee, founded in 1979. It was named after an historical event where in 1865, General William T. Sherman ordered the distribution of 40 acres of lots to some freed African-American families on the Georgia coast, and also distributed some army mules .
Nov 9, 2022 · The failed promise of “40 acres and a mule denied African Americans the ability to generate financial self-sufficiency, which was needed in order to resist as much as possible the Jim Crow...
Jan 12, 2015 · As the Civil War was winding down 150 years ago, Union leaders gathered a group of black ministers in Savannah, Ga. The goal was to help the thousands of newly freed slaves. From that meeting came...
