Join us for the screening of "The Harvest," a captivating film that tells the story of how school integration transformed the town of Leland, Mississippi.
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The Harvest: PLANTING THE SEEDS OF INTEGRATION ONE CLASSROOM AT A TIME.Film DescriptionIn The Harvest, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Douglas A. Blackmon looks back at how school integration transformed his hometown of Leland, Mississippi. After the 1954 Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional, little more than token efforts were made to desegregate Southern schools. That changed dramatically on October 29, 1969, when the high court ordered that Mississippi schools to fully — and immediately — desegregate. As a result, a group of children, including six-year-old Blackmon, became part of the first class of Black and white children who would attend all 12 grades together in Leland.