LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton
2001
89 min
FOR AS LONG AS SHE CAN REMEMBER, LALEE WALLACE'S FAMILY HAS PICKED 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.
Ratings
3.5
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Release Date
2001-01-19
Runtime
89 min
Original Language
English
Languages
English
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Genres
Documentary