civil rights movement trip in MS
很好的电影,很感动。好像很多人吐槽SKEETER的演员,我觉得不错啊,呵呵。电影里有弄弄的南方风情,比如夸张的车型,blues音乐,南方口音。
之前春假的时候,去密西西比一个法律NGO实习。去了电影里取景的很多地方,包括电影拍摄的那个住宅小区,跟着一个走了一个民权运动的TRIP,从JACKSON开始,一路往北开向DELTA地区。有兴趣了解美国民权运动的朋友,也可以走走。
去了Medgar Evers的故址,也是他遇害的地方。” Medgar Evers was one of the first civil rights worker that was assassinated due to his work to bring equality to the African American population in the United States” 当时电影里也给了一期life杂志封面特写镜头,就是一个黑人母亲报着着自己的儿子的那个封面。
去了Mound Bayou - Oldest US All-Black Town – Former Slave Founded-1887。
去了Fannie Lou Hamer Memorial。
去了Bryant Grocery - Site of Emmett Till’s Abduction。那个房子已经很破很破了。政府想收购作为“遗址”来着,这一家人就是不愿意卖,还写了很大的标识注明是私人财产。
还去了Little Zion Baptist Church - Robert Johnson’s gravesite.
讲两个电影之外的小故事吧。
一个是去之前,和一个法学院的同学聊天,他在JACKSON长大,他说从小到大,虽然separate but equal这个政策已经废除了,学校里有黑人白人,但他只有一个黑人朋友而已。JACKSON有一条铁轨,铁轨的那边都住着黑人,他从来没有去过铁轨的另一边。原因? It is just the way it is。
一个是MS的CAPITOL BUILDING,是背向DC朝向南边的。而美国其他州府都是面朝着DC的方向的。
转载一段有关delta地区的介绍。(http://www.blueshighway.org/)
The River bore the alluvial plain that is the Mississippi Delta, and the Delta bore fruit.......
The Blues, Faulkner, Welty, Wright, Civil Rights, The Great Flood, Bogues and Bayous, Plantations, The Great Migration, Soul Food, King Cotton, The Levee, Agribusiness, Catfish, Gospel, Immigrants' Stories, Highway 61, Quilts, Segregation, Integration, Freedom Songs, Freedom Summer, Folk Tales, Swamp Forests, Hunt Clubs, Oral Histories, and surprisingly, hot tamales.........
The Mississippi Delta has a mystique of mythological proportions. It was virgin wilderness and swamp at the turn of the twentieth century, cleared for cotton and plantation life by the 1930's, dominated by politically powerful gentleman planters, peopled by Black sharecroppers, Italian immigrants, Chinese, Lebanese and Jewish merchants. It is the source of "The Great Migration" north, and thus the home of the African American populations of many Northern cities, like Chicago and Detroit. It is the home of the Blues, Gospel, soul food, the civil rights movement. It was home to Tennessee Williams, Eudora Welty, Richard Wright, Clifton Taulbert, Shelby Foote, and Hodding Carter. It is where Teddy Roosevelt saved the original "Teddy Bear," and where Elvis Presley learned to dance and sing and drive a Cadillac. It is the land where Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson wrote the lyrics that eventually made the Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton famous.
The Delta is the American story, shrunk in time and space. Faulkner said it was "deswamped and denuded and derivered in two generations." Shelby Foote claimed that one could see "a hundred years of history in twenty years in the Delta," and James Cobb wrote "When it comes to history, the Delta was clearly a region in a hurry."
Analysts from Howard Zinn to James Cobb have claimed that the Delta is the South's South, a place where American traits and experience are revealed with blinding clarity. Students of contemporary American culture will not find a better place to explore American history and culture in the field.
"Much of what is profoundly American- what people love about America- has come from the delta, which is often called 'the cradle of American culture.' "
from Stories of the Delta, The National Park Service Lower Mississippi Delta Symposium, 1996
之前春假的时候,去密西西比一个法律NGO实习。去了电影里取景的很多地方,包括电影拍摄的那个住宅小区,跟着一个走了一个民权运动的TRIP,从JACKSON开始,一路往北开向DELTA地区。有兴趣了解美国民权运动的朋友,也可以走走。
去了Medgar Evers的故址,也是他遇害的地方。” Medgar Evers was one of the first civil rights worker that was assassinated due to his work to bring equality to the African American population in the United States” 当时电影里也给了一期life杂志封面特写镜头,就是一个黑人母亲报着着自己的儿子的那个封面。
去了Mound Bayou - Oldest US All-Black Town – Former Slave Founded-1887。
去了Fannie Lou Hamer Memorial。
去了Bryant Grocery - Site of Emmett Till’s Abduction。那个房子已经很破很破了。政府想收购作为“遗址”来着,这一家人就是不愿意卖,还写了很大的标识注明是私人财产。
还去了Little Zion Baptist Church - Robert Johnson’s gravesite.
讲两个电影之外的小故事吧。
一个是去之前,和一个法学院的同学聊天,他在JACKSON长大,他说从小到大,虽然separate but equal这个政策已经废除了,学校里有黑人白人,但他只有一个黑人朋友而已。JACKSON有一条铁轨,铁轨的那边都住着黑人,他从来没有去过铁轨的另一边。原因? It is just the way it is。
一个是MS的CAPITOL BUILDING,是背向DC朝向南边的。而美国其他州府都是面朝着DC的方向的。
转载一段有关delta地区的介绍。(http://www.blueshighway.org/)
The River bore the alluvial plain that is the Mississippi Delta, and the Delta bore fruit.......
The Blues, Faulkner, Welty, Wright, Civil Rights, The Great Flood, Bogues and Bayous, Plantations, The Great Migration, Soul Food, King Cotton, The Levee, Agribusiness, Catfish, Gospel, Immigrants' Stories, Highway 61, Quilts, Segregation, Integration, Freedom Songs, Freedom Summer, Folk Tales, Swamp Forests, Hunt Clubs, Oral Histories, and surprisingly, hot tamales.........
The Mississippi Delta has a mystique of mythological proportions. It was virgin wilderness and swamp at the turn of the twentieth century, cleared for cotton and plantation life by the 1930's, dominated by politically powerful gentleman planters, peopled by Black sharecroppers, Italian immigrants, Chinese, Lebanese and Jewish merchants. It is the source of "The Great Migration" north, and thus the home of the African American populations of many Northern cities, like Chicago and Detroit. It is the home of the Blues, Gospel, soul food, the civil rights movement. It was home to Tennessee Williams, Eudora Welty, Richard Wright, Clifton Taulbert, Shelby Foote, and Hodding Carter. It is where Teddy Roosevelt saved the original "Teddy Bear," and where Elvis Presley learned to dance and sing and drive a Cadillac. It is the land where Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson wrote the lyrics that eventually made the Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton famous.
The Delta is the American story, shrunk in time and space. Faulkner said it was "deswamped and denuded and derivered in two generations." Shelby Foote claimed that one could see "a hundred years of history in twenty years in the Delta," and James Cobb wrote "When it comes to history, the Delta was clearly a region in a hurry."
Analysts from Howard Zinn to James Cobb have claimed that the Delta is the South's South, a place where American traits and experience are revealed with blinding clarity. Students of contemporary American culture will not find a better place to explore American history and culture in the field.
"Much of what is profoundly American- what people love about America- has come from the delta, which is often called 'the cradle of American culture.' "
from Stories of the Delta, The National Park Service Lower Mississippi Delta Symposium, 1996
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