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1 ago 2022 · 100 Years From Mississippi. Mamie Lang Kirkland was seven years old when she fled Ellisville, Mississippi in 1915 with her mother and siblings as her father and his friend escaped an approaching lynch mob. Mamie had vowed for a century that she would never return to Mississippi. Yet at the urging of her son Tarabu, she finally confronted her ...
She is a recipient of the Women in Film Crystal award, as well as the We Empower Women’s Pioneer Award, and the 1st Polly Platt Award. As an author, Lynda wrote the best-selling book Hello He Lied: And Other Truths from the Hollywood Trenches, which debuted at #1 on the LA Times Best Seller list, where it stayed for 10 weeks and turned into an industry classic.
100 Years From Mississippi is a 60 minute documentary on the life of Mamie Lang Kirkland, a 111-year old African American woman who experienced and survived racial terrorism, segregation, bigotry and bias and yet continued to have hope, joy and love of life, full of the certainty that we can do better.
PUBLIC TELEVISION BROADCASTS Watch 100 Years from Mississippi on Public Television Stations around the country through our partnership with American Public Television. Local listings are updated below as they are announced: UPCOMING BROADCASTS 2023 STAY TUNED! PAST BROADCASTS 2023 WEDU PBS & WEDQ, Tampa Fl Wednesday, February 22nd at 4:59pm (MT) Monday, February 27th at […]
"100 Years From Mississippi"is the journey of Mamie Lang Kirkland, a 111-year-old African American woman who returns to Mississippi a century after she survi...
For over 100 years Mamie vowed never to return to Mississippi. Yet with Tarabu's remarkable find, he urged his mother to finally confront her childhood trauma by returning to Ellisville. Mamie was 107 when they began the journey to connect her story to the larger impact of America's legacy of racial violence, which echoes today from Ferguson to ...
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It’s Official! 110 Amazing Years Today, September 3, 2018. Happy Birthday Mamie Kirkland! September 3, 2018 - 9:15 am; At the historic opening of the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama April 26, 2018 - 10:46 pm; 100 Years from Mississippi is dedicated in honor of James Seligman January 4, 2018 ...
