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Denise Ward-Brown

Jim Crow to Barack Obama: a Video Documetray & Virtual Archive

This project will involve two sets of African Americans to be involved as the subject and active participants for the film. The first set will be the elders who are at least 80 years old having grown up in the now extinct era of Jim Crow. The second set will be four to six people under the age of 30 who may have voted for the first time with the past election. The video/film project will seek the participation of these two groups working together to huild the content for the documentary. The youth will conduct video history interviews with the octogenarians. The main focus of the documentary will follow the legacy of slavery in the first half of the 20th century, the Civial Rights Era, and a current assessment of race relations in the Obama era as it affects the lives of the participants both young and old in our region.