LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton
This heartbreaking documentary depicts the extreme poverty of an African-American family and their Mississippi Delta school district. LaLee's Kin takes us deep into the Mississippi Delta and the intertwined lives of LaLee Wallace, a great-grandmother struggling to hold her world together in the face of dire poverty, and Reggie Barnes, superintendent of the embattled West Tallahatchie School System. The film explores the painful legacy of slavery and sharecropping in the Delta.
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Awards
Nominated for 1 Academy Award
Academy Awards 1 nominated
- 2002 Best Documentary Feature Film Nominated Susan Froemke
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