The Trouble I've Seen
1976-01-01 · 10 min · Not rated
A shot-on-video look at three impoverished Black communities in rural Georgia in 1976 - America's bicentennial, interspersing photos with footage and voices of those in their communities.
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- Philip Mallory Jones
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- American Film Foundation
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