SouthDocs Works with MDAH on Voting Rights Act Film

By on May 19th, 2015

Documentary Partnership WITH MDAH Explores the Voting Rights Act

safe_imageThe Center and our institute the Southern Documentary Project just began working with the Mississippi Department of Archives and History on a short film about the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which was signed 50 years ago on August 6, 1965. The film will be screened at MDAH in the fall of 2015 – more details to come on that.

SouthDocs director Andy Harper and I went down to Jackson last week for the first round of interviews. Below are a few photos by Andy with our very impressive group of interviewees. We’ll report back as the research and filming process continues.

Thanks to our friends at MDAH – Julia Young, Leandra Straka-Orr, Amanda Lyons, and Katie Blount – for organizing everything. Learn more about Southern Studies alum Katie, recently named head of MDAH, in an earlier blog post.

 

Becca interviews Dr. Leslie McLemore, a veteran of the movement and retired faculty member at Jackson State University.
Becca interviews Dr. Leslie McLemore, a veteran of the movement and retired faculty member at Jackson State University.
Dr. Leslie McLemore with Governor William Winter.
Dr. Leslie McLemore with Governor William Winter.
Interviewee and movement veteran Flonzie Brown-Wright shows MDAH's Leandra Straka-Orr and Becca her memoir.
Interviewee and movement veteran Flonzie Brown-Wright shows MDAH's Leandra Straka-Orr and Becca her memoir.
Representative Robert G. Clark, Jr., the first African American elected to the Mississippi Legislature since Reconstruction. He served from 1967 to 2004.
Representative Robert G. Clark, Jr., the first African American elected to the Mississippi Legislature since Reconstruction. He served from 1967 to 2004.
Dr. K. C. Morrison, movement veteran and chair of political science at Mississippi State University.
Dr. K. C. Morrison, movement veteran and chair of political science at Mississippi State University.
Governor Winter shows us an article he wrote about the Democratic primary in the University of Mississippi Law Journal in 1948.
Governor Winter shows us an article he wrote about the Democratic primary in the University of Mississippi Law Journal in 1948.
Governor William Winter.
Governor William Winter.

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