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- Title
- Life and Death in Blakely, Georgia, 1991.
- Description
- Movie produced by the Center for Democratic Renewal documenting the Ku Klux Klan's involvement in and influence on the City of Blakely Fire Department. Includes coverage of the deaths of Charles McCoy and Antavious Williams, two African American children, purportedly due to the fire department's negligence; an interview segment with Sara Ann McCoy, mother of Charles; a speech by Rev. Dr. Mac Charles Jones, vice chair of the Center for Democratic Renewal; interview segments with Ben Cawthon and Wilbur Robinson of Blakely's Concerned Black Citizens Committee; and a statement by David Griffin, former Blakely City Council member, asserting that Blakely fire chief Franklin Brown was a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
- Creator Name(s)
- Center for Democratic Renewal. (producer), Levitas, Daniel. (producer), Bailey, Louis. (film director), Ettinger, Bruce. (film editor)
- Date Created
- 1991
- Name Subject(s)
- Center for Democratic Renewal., Ku Klux Klan (1915- ), Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (1975)
- Topical Subject(s)
- Racism against Black people--United States., White supremacy movements--Georgia., Racial discrimination--United States--20th century.
- Geographic subjects
- United States., Georgia., North and Central America--United States--Georgia--Early--Blakely, United States, 20th century.
- Physical Location
- RG 534, Box 10, Folder 7; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
- Related Item
- Emergency Fund for Legal Aid for Racial and Intercultural Justice Records, 1969-1998.--https://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-534
- Identifier (local)
- rg534_b10_f7_life_and_death_in_Blakely_GA
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:286343
