I Heard It Through the Grapevine

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Documentary

Overview

Renowned Black writer James Baldwin retraces his time in the South during the Civil Rights Movement, reflecting with his trademark brilliance and insight on the passage of more than two decades. From Selma and Birmingham and Atlanta; to the battleground beaches of St. Augustine, Florida, with Chinua Achebe; and back north for a visit to Newark with Amiri Baraka, Baldwin lays bare the fiction of progress in post–Civil Rights America, wondering “what happened to the children” and those 'who did not die, but whose lives were smashed on Freedom Road'.

Keywords

race politics
civil rights
protest march
deep south
james baldwin
black history
institutional racism
american politics
african american community

Details

Status: Released
Release date: March 3, 1982
Original language: English
Spoken languages: English
Countries: United States of America
Production: Living Archives Inc.
Cast: James Baldwin,David Baldwin,Chinua Achebe,Amiri Baraka,Sterling Brown,David Dennis,Hoyt Fuller,Oretha Castle Haley,Lonnie King,Amanda Bowens Perdewand 3 more
Director: Pat Hartley,Dick Fontaine
Writer: James Baldwin
Producer: Pat Hartley,Dick Fontaine
Budget: Not recorded
Revenue: Not recorded
IMDb: tt0151007