Film·1982·1h 32m

I Heard It Through the Grapevine

DocumentaryHistory

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'.

Directed by Dick Fontaine, Pat Hartley

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12 credited

James Baldwin
James Baldwin
David Baldwin
David Baldwin
Chinua Achebe
Chinua AchebeSelf
Amiri Baraka
Amiri BarakaSelf
Sterling Brown
Sterling BrownSelf
David Dennis
David DennisSelf
Hoyt Fuller
Hoyt FullerSelf
Oretha Castle Haley
Oretha Castle HaleySelf
Lonnie King
Lonnie KingSelf
Amanda Bowens Perdew
Amanda Bowens PerdewSelf
Charles Sherrod
Charles SherrodSelf
Fred Lee Shuttlesworth
Fred Lee ShuttlesworthSelf

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