100 Years From Mississippi | Virtual - 100 Years From Mississippi

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Mamie Lang Kirkland was seven years old when she fled Ellisville, Mississippi in 1915 with her mother and siblings as her father and his friend, John Hartfield, escaped an approaching lynch mob. 100 years later she returned to bear witness to the terrible legacy of racial terror.

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Public Film Contact

Tarabu Betserai Kirkland

100yearsfromms@gmail.com

Year
2020
Runtime
60 minutes
Language
English
Country
United States
Premiere
Not applicable
Rating
Suitable for All Ages

Director
Tarabu Betserai Kirkland
Screenwriter
Tarabu Betserai Kirkland
Producer
Tarabu Betserai Kirkland, Gina Rugolo Judd
Executive Producer
Mamie Kirkland, Harrison Engle, Barry Shabaka Henley & Paulina Sahagun, Ellie Kanner, Paul & Nicole Mones, Patty Hirota-Cohen & Lewis Cohen, Julie Mount, Kat Taylo

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100 Years From Mississippi

"100 Years From Mississippi" is a 60-minute documentary on the life of Mamie Lang Kirkland, a 111-year-old African American woman who experienced and survived racial terrorism, segregation, bigotry, and bias and yet continued to have hope, joy, and love of life, full of the certainty that we can do better.