How Rarely Seen Archival Footage Brought a Civil-Rights-Era Story to Life

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Raney Aronson
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When they were working on "American Reckoning," directors @bradleylbar & @redrubes14 & @RetroReport came to me & @dawnporter with this extraordinary archival footage filmed by filmmakers Ed Pincus & David Neuman more than 50 years ago. Read more about it.

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How Rarely Seen Archival Footage Brought a Civil-Rights-Era Story to
More than 50 years after the release of 'Black Natchez,' rarely seen 1960s footage from filmmakers Ed Pincus and David Neuman anchors the new documentary 'American Reckoning.'
11:49 AM · Feb 16, 2022

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/video-black-natchez-civil-rights-documentary-american-reckoning/


In the summer of 1965, filmmakers Ed Pincus and David Neuman traveled to Natchez, Mississippi, to make a documentary about the civil rights movement’s impact on a community.

While they were filming that August, a car bomb targeting Natchez NAACP president George Metcalfe left him critically injured and outraged the city’s Black community. Metcalfe survived, but the incident would reshape the documentary Pincus and Neuman went on to produce: Black Natchez.

Nearly 60 years later, the footage the filmmakers captured that summer, as well as when they returned in 1967, would become a cornerstone for a different documentary about another Natchez family’s search for justice.

Premiering this month, American Reckoning, produced and directed by Brad Lichtenstein and Yoruba Richen for FRONTLINE and Retro Report, examines another targeted bombing two years later in the same community: the killing of Wharlest Jackson Sr., treasurer of the local branch of the NAACP. The documentary draws heavily on archival material, including rarely before seen footage shot by Pincus and Neuman decades earlier, and also explores an ongoing federal effort to investigate civil-rights-era cold cases.

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[Karadeniz]

1. I'm embarrassed at what an ignorant, self centered pig I was back then.