Lay My Burden Down.

Genre: Television

Year Published: 1966

Creator: National Educational Television & Radio Center.

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Producer, Jack WillisSurveys the accomplishments of the civil rights movement during the one year after the dramatic Selma-to-Montgomery march and the ensuing voting rights act of 1965, as observed in the status of tenant farmers whose average earnings are less than $1,000 per year, and who live in constant debt to white plantation owners and the company store. Explains that the rural Negro is no less hungry, no better educated and no more powerful politically than he was then. Urges that the Federal Government create more jobs, allocate poverty-funds more equitably, and police the agriculture department more effectively

Complete Record: Lay My Burden Down. National Educational Television & Radio Center. 59 Min., Sd., B&W, 16 Mm. © National Educational Television & Radio Center; 21nov66; Mp17154. , Producer, Jack Willis Surveys the accomplishments of the civil rights movement during the one year after the dramatic Selma-to-Montgomery march and the ensuing voting rights act of 1965, as observed in the status of tenant farmers whose average earnings are less than $1,000 per year, and who live in constant debt to white plantation owners and the company store. Explains that the rural Negro is no less hungry, no better educated and no more powerful politically than he was then. Urges that the Federal Government create more jobs, allocate poverty-funds more equitably, and police the agriculture department more effectivelyNOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.