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SUMMARY:The Harvest World Premiere Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:The Harvest World Premiere Film Screening \nJoin us for the highly anticipated world premiere of The Harvest\, a captivating film that tells the story of how school integration transformed the town of Leland\, Mississippi. \nDate: August 30\, 2023 \nTime: 5:15 Reception w/hors d’oeuvres served \n 6:00pm Film Screening Begins \n Author Douglas Blackmon will participate in a panel discussion after the film. \nLocation: Delta Research & Ext Center\, Stoneville Road\, Stoneville\, Mississippi\, USA \nIn The Harvest\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Douglas A. Blackmon looks back at how school integration transformed his hometown of Leland\, Mississippi. After the 1954 Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional\, little more than token efforts were made to desegregate Southern schools. That changed dramatically on October 29\, 1969\, when the high court ordered that Mississippi schools to fully — and immediately — desegregate. As a result\, a group of children\, including six-year-old Blackmon\, became part of the first class of Black and white children who would attend all 12 grades together in Leland. \nSet against vast historic and demographic changes unfolding across America\, The Harvest follows a coalition of Black and white citizens working to create racially integrated public schools in a cotton town in the middle of the Mississippi Delta\, the most rigidly segregated area in America. It tells the extraordinary story of how that first class became possible\, then traces the lives of Blackmon and his classmates\, teachers and parents from the first day through high school graduation in 1982. It is a riveting portrait of how those children’s lives were transformed and how the town — and America — were changed. But as the film follows the lives of those children into the present\, it is also a portrait of what our society has lost in its failure to finish the work begun a generation ago. \nThe Harvest World Premier
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