Mar 03, 1982
92 min
Full-HD

I Heard It Through the Grapevine (1982)

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'.

Category

Documentary History

Country

United States of America

Companies

Living Archives Inc.

James Baldwin

David Baldwin

Chinua Achebe

Self

Amiri Baraka

Self

Sterling Brown

Self

David Dennis

Self

Hoyt Fuller

Self

Oretha Castle Haley

Self

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