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Ritt elaborates the theme of white exploitation of blacks in a series of interrelated vignettes, starting from the opening scene in which the father. Nathan Lee (Paul Winfield) and David Lee are involved in one of the basic struggles in life--the search for food. Despite the aid of their hunting dog. Sounder, the two are unsuccessful in their search for a coon. The family goes to bed hungry. Alone with Rebecca, Nathan Lee curses his existence, but she says "We've been through these hard times before, Nathan Lee and we've made it." "But made it to what...
Economic exploitation forces Nathan Lee to steal from the white man's smokehouse to find his family. His arrest gives Ritt the chance to show the kangaroo justice blacks receive in white courts. After a speedy trial, Nathan lee is sentenced to one year of hard labor at a parish workcamp, a form of modern slavery only slightly more obvious than the scrip my grandfather was advanced...
...wavering white liberal is shamed into telling the Morgans where Nathan Lee is being held. David Lee goes on an unsuccessful search for his father, but during the course of his journey, he runs across an all-black school where he is befriended by the teacher. Camille (Janet MacLachlan). David Lee stays at the school for awhile, and receives his first instruction in black history...
Dunlop came into the deanship at the height of student unrest at Harvard. Ford had resigned after the occupation of University Hall in April 1969, suffering from a stroke. President Emeritus Nathan M. Pusey '28 looked to the Faculty's informal conservative caucus for a new dean, and Dunlop emerged as the perfect choice...
...Zircon. Good blues rolls in and out of Boston. J. Geils started out playing blues here. When they left, James Montgomery an the best blues around. Now, James is bucking stardom, and they say Larry Carsman's band is every bit as good ("It's true."--Jan Nathan...