Film
LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton
2001 · 1h 29m · Documentary
For as long as she can remember, LaLee Wallace's family has picked cotton.
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- 7.6
- Metacritic
- 78
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Overview
This heartbreaking documentary depicts the extreme poverty of an African-American family and their Mississippi Delta school district. 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.
Crew
- Deborah DicksonDirector
- Albert MayslesDirector
- Susan FroemkeDirector
Media
Details
- Release date
- January 19, 2001
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 1h 29m
- Genres
- Documentary
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