From Civil Rights to cotton crops- ways to understand the South.

 

This highly visual program examines the thrilling regional phenomena of the Cajuns who wade in murky bayou waters to catch huge catfish and turtles by reaching into hollow logs and stumps with their bare hands.

  
   
 

A film looking at the news men who reported on the Civil rights movement. The film consists of archival footage and interviews with some of the key reporters.

   


A superb documentary set in the small town of the title. Starting with the murder of three civil rights workers (featured in the movie Mississippi Burning) we learn that the community of Philadelphia feels under particular scrutiny when it comes to issues of race and civil rights.

  
   
   

This film follows four Indian-American young women as they compete in Atlanta's annual Southern Asian beauty pagent. A film about the complexities of ethnic identity in the modern South.
   

5 videos on the history of Jews in the South including Pushcarts and Plantations




   
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