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Homecoming
Title
Homecoming.
Published
California Newsreel, 1999.
Physical Description
1 streaming video.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Streaming video, subdivided into smaller segments (total time: 56 min.).
Title from distributor's description.
Closed captioned.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
After the Civil War, Congress allotted 45 million acres of land to former slaves, but protest from white supremacists meant that little of it was ever actually distributed. Despite formidable obstacles, some one million African-Americans managed to purchase more than 15,000,000 acres of arable land by 1910. This program explores the history of those black-owned farms, from Reconstruction to the agricultural crises of the early 20th century and on to the era of federal loans and subsidies on which most farmers, black and white both, now depend. Director Charlene Gilbert weaves this history together with a portrait of her own farming family, who obtained their land in the 1930s only after the Farm Security Administration was forced to lend to African Americans. (56 minutes) A streaming videorecording.
Variant and related titles
ASP-AVON OCLC KB.
Films on demand.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Added to Catalog
November 15, 2019
Series
Black studies in video
Subjects
Genre/Form
Nonfiction films.
History.
Nonfiction films.
Internet videos.
Also listed under
Films Media Group.
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