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      LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton

      Released Jan 19, 2001 1h 29m Documentary List
      Reviews 100% Audience Score 100+ Ratings "LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton" 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. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member An exceptional work of art! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Audience Member A remarkable look at modern American poverty, and the cycle created and perpetuated by both slavery and wage slavery. This is a movie that is sometimes difficult to watch, but sheds lights on the origins of all those "F Schools," on all those crumbling houses and unpaved roads that we see from the highways; it is a movie that doesn't offer easy solutions, but a movie that documents the damages nonetheless, which is just as important. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton (2001) LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton (2001) LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton (2001) LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton (2001) Antonio 'Main' Scott and Gregory 'Redman' Wallace. LALEE'S KIN: THE LEGACY OF COTTON- Lalee Wallace. View more photos

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      Synopsis "LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton" 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.
      Director
      Deborah Dickson, Susan Froemke, Albert Maysles
      Producer
      Susan Froemke, John Hoffman
      Distributor
      HBO
      Production Co
      Maysles Films, Home Box Office (HBO)
      Genre
      Documentary
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Jan 19, 2001, Limited
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $5.5K
      Runtime
      1h 29m