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Lulu and the Girls of Americus, Georgia 1963

(Lulu and the Girls of Americus, Georgia 1963)
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Original Title : Lulu and the Girls of Americus, Georgia 1963
Time : 84 Min
Genre : Documentary
Project Type : Movie
Year of release : 2024
Director : Travis W. Lewis, Richard J. McCollough
Writer : No data available
Producer : No data available
Project State : completed
Origin Country/Region : United States
Original Language : English
About : This is an investigative documentary that took many years to produce and for the first time shed light on an unknown tragic story about the abuse of black children during the Civil Rights Movement. You might have heard of "The Stockade ...See moreThis is an investigative documentary that took many years to produce and for the first time shed light on an unknown tragic story about the abuse of black children during the Civil Rights Movement. You might have heard of "The Stockade Girls" in Essence magazine or "The Stolen Girls of Leesburg" on NPR, or even a Washington Post article on the Leesburg Stockade Girls. This is the original documentary film that started it all. Our intense research accurately details how young people in the small rural town of Americus, Georgia got involved in a civil rights demonstration against a local segregated movie theater. Once arrested, thirty-two girls were isolated and imprisoned in a deserted Civil War-era prison for forty-five days. All told from the perspective of Lulu Westbrooks-Griffin along with her brother James Westbrooks and their niece Gloria Breedlove. We tracked down as many of the surviving women who opened up for the first time about what happened that painful summer of 1963 and how their lives changed. We tried to get local people in Americus to talk about the incident but never got any responses. We have exclusive interviews with two key Civil Rights icons, Congressman John Lewis and Julian Bond, who not only remember the incident but reflected passionately and put into historical perspective the plight of the young girls and their place in history. Lulu and the Girls of Americus, Georgia 1963 has been screened at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, NY, the Angelica Theater in New York City, the Martin Luther King Center in Atlanta, The Great Wax and Blacks Museum in Baltimore, and at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, which was hosted by Congressman John Lewis. This film has been honored by several film festivals and awards, including the Hollywood International Diversity Film Festival and the Toronto Film Magazine Festival, and has been awarded a Gold Telly Award and is an Accolade Global Film Competition Winner. The documentary chronicles one of the darkest moments of the Civil Rights Movement in American history. In one of the last conversations with the late Congressman John Lewis and Julian Bond, they encouraged us to complete the film and make every effort to get it on national television. We are now fulfilling that promise. Written by Richard J. McCollough See less Read more: Plot summary

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