I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Overview
Renowned Black writer James Baldwin retraces his time in the South during the Civil Rights Movement, reflecting with his trademark brilliance and insight on the passage of more than two decades. From Selma and Birmingham and Atlanta; to the battleground beaches of St. Augustine, Florida, with Chinua Achebe; and back north for a visit to Newark with Amiri Baraka, Baldwin lays bare the fiction of progress in post–Civil Rights America, wondering “what happened to the children” and those 'who did not die, but whose lives were smashed on Freedom Road'.
Release date
03/03/1982
Votes
3
Popularity
0.6
James Baldwin
David Baldwin
Chinua Achebe
Self
Amiri Baraka
Self
Sterling Brown
Self
David Dennis
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Hoyt Fuller
Self
Oretha Castle Haley
Self
Lonnie King
Self
Amanda Bowens Perdew
Self
Charles Sherrod
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Fred Lee Shuttlesworth
Self
Hosea Williams
Self
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