LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton

LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton

89 mins | Documentary | Jan. 19, 2001

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.

LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton

89 mins | Documentary | Jan. 19, 2001

LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton
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.
IMDb rating 7.6
Producers
Original title LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton
Directors Deborah Dickson, Susan Froemke, Albert Maysles
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