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Door Ajar - The M.B. Mayfield Story

(Door Ajar - The M.B. Mayfield Story)
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Original Title : Door Ajar - The M.B. Mayfield Story
Time : 75 Min
Genre : Documentary
Project Type : Movie
Year of release : 2019
Director : John Reyer Afamasaga
Writer : John Reyer Afamasaga
Producer : John Reyer Afamasaga, Michelle M. Pillow
Project State : completed
Origin Country/Region : United States
Original Language : English
About : From inside a broom closet through a cracked door, an African American janitor listens and learns art in segregated Mississippi. 1949 Segregated Mississippi While driving through Ercu, Mississippi to start his new job as the first chairman...See moreFrom inside a broom closet through a cracked door, an African American janitor listens and learns art in segregated Mississippi. 1949 Segregated Mississippi While driving through Ercu, Mississippi to start his new job as the first chairman of the University of Mississippi art department, Prof. Stuart R. Purser discovers the roadside artwork of twenty-six-year-old African American primitive artist, M.B. Mayfield (1923-2005). It is here an amazing journey begins. Purser, whose father was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, installs Mayfield as a janitor at the university with the sole purpose of teaching him. From inside the classroom's broom closet with the door ajar, the artist listens and learns. And it is through this narrow opening these two men become an important part of Southern history. Door Ajar captures the true essence of the South, told by those who grew up in a different era. Sometimes their yarns are jarringly awkward to listen to, but it's always earnest and from the heart. From a close family member to townspeople, to a civil rights campaigner, politician, judge, authors, documentary makers, and historians...Door Ajar records tales that sound like folklore but true. Good Will Hunting goes South. Written by John Reyer Afamasaga See less Read more: Plot summary

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