LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton

Name: LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2001
Duration: 89 min
Rating: 6.5

2001 · 89 min

Documentary

★ 6.5

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This heartbreaking documentary depicts the extreme poverty of an African-American family and their Mississippi Delta school district. LaLee's Kin 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.

Crew

Director Deborah Dickson
Director Susan Froemke
Director Albert Maysles

Crew

Director — Deborah Dickson
Director — Susan Froemke
Director — Albert Maysles

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