Film
The
Intolerable Burden
http://www.frif.com/new2003/into.html
This documentary film, winner of awards from the Organization of American
Historians and the American Historical Association, follows the commitment
of Mae Bertha Carter and her family of Sunflower County, Mississippi,
to obtain a quality education by examining the conditions of segregation
prior to 1965, the hardships the family faced during desegregation, and
the massive white resistance that led to resegregation.
Links
The
Southern Center for Human Rights
http://www.schr.org/aboutthecenter/index.html
The Center was created in 1976 to respond to the deplorable conditions
in prisons and jails in the South and the United States Supreme Court's
decision that year allowing the resumption of capital punishment. Since
its creation, the Center has been engaged in litigation, public education,
advocacy, and work with other organizations and individuals to protect
the civil and human rights of people prosecuted in the criminal courts
— particularly those facing the death penalty — and confined in the prisons
and jails of the South.
One
Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana
http://www-cds.aas.duke.edu/l_t10/l_t10.html
This website features photographic portraits of Louisiana prisoners by
Deborah Luster acocompanied by a political and historical background of
American prisons by C.D. Wright. Winner of the tenth Lange-Taylor Prize
at Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies.
Texas
Death Row
http://sightphoto.com/sightphoto/Light/light_texas.html
For three weeks in 1994, documentary photographer Ken Light recorded
life among almost four hundred condemned prisoners on Death Row in Texas,
the state that leads the nation in executions since 1976.
North Carolina
Women's Prison Writing Performance Project
http://www.unc.edu/~cramer/prison/
The NC Women's Prison Writing Performance Project is a not-for-profit project based
in the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women.
Print Materials
Curry, Constance.
Silver Rights. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books,
1995.
Dittmer,
John. Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi.
Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1994.
Hudson, Winson and Constance Curry.
Mississippi Harmony: Memoirs of
a Freedom Fighter. New York: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., 2002.
Moye, J. Todd.
Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance
Movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945-1986. Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Payne, Charles M.
I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition
and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle. Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1995.
Published: 24 June 2005
© 2005 Constance Curry and
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