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Fair Hope [videorecording (DVD)].

Shami Media Group, [2019], c2018.

DVD 334.70973 F163 Doc

Fraternal organizations, Black -- Alabama -- History.

Blacks -- Alabama -- Social conditions.

Fraternal organizations -- Alabama -- History.

Alternate title:

Contradictions of Fair Hope [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)].

1 videodisc (68 min.) : 5.1 Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm.

Originally released as a documentary film in 2012 under title: The contradictions of Fair Hope.

This disc is expected to play back in DVD video "play only" devices and may not play back in other DVD devices, including recorders and PC drives.

Shami Media Group presents ; produced by Kelly Glover ; directed by S. Epatha Merkerson, Rockell Metcalf.

Narrated by Whoopi Goldberg.

Examines a little known aspect of African American history, when newly freed slaves throughout the South formed benevolent societies to respond to abject hunger, illness and the fear of a pauper's grave. But with time 'The Fair Hope Benevolent Society' eventually struggles with a gradual loss of tradition.

Documentary films.

Merkerson, S. Epatha, 1952-

Metcalf, Rockell.

Goldberg, Whoopi, 1955-

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