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| RACE: MISSISSIPPI
A video created by SIUC anthropologist Jane Adams and her husband, photographer D. Gorton, for Adams' class on America's diverse cultures has been recognized by Apple Computer Inc. in its web site's "Profiles in Success." The 23-minute video, "Race: Mississippi," focuses on several Southerners who played very different roles in their state's struggle for civil rights some 40 years ago. "The resulting scenes are at times eerie, anger-inducing, and inspirational, but always compelling," the profile says. The video features civil rights activist Alyene Quin, Chinese-American grocers Hoover and Freeda Lee, Jewish businessman Stanley Sherman, white private school founder Betty Furniss, and former Citizens Council leader Horace Harned, to this day an unabashed white supremacist. Getting those interviews on film was important, Adams says, in order to capture gestures and expressions that add to the significance of what the interviewees have to say. The video is part of a larger "Mississippi Project" that aims to portray the civil rights movement of the 1960s from all perspectives. When complete, it will contain a series of digital video interviews, still photos, home movies, and documents both private and public, all archived and linked on the Internet. The web site is "a way to allow everybody, not just serious scholars, to have access to original source material," Adams says. The web site, called "Memory and Judgment: Ethnicity and Race in the Lower Mississippi Delta," is at www.siu.edu/~jadams/mississippi_delta/race_frame_pg.html. The site includes a link to the video. To read the Apple profile, go to www.apple.com/education/profiles/carbondale/index.html. —K. C. Jaehnig
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