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11. Jan. 2014 · Fair Hope was established in Alabama in 1888 to help formerly enslaved blacks live productively by pooling resources and labor. Inhabiting adjoining properties, its members crafted a constitution, a dues-paying structure, a somewhat arcane leadership format (including selection of a queen), and protocols for dealing with illness and death. Their sense of ritual and identity was so powerful ...
30. Jan. 2012 · "The Contradictions of Fair Hope" has received the Filmmakers Choice Award at the San Diego Black Film Festival!
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This award-winning film, narrated by Whoopi Goldberg, examines a little known aspect of American history, when newly freed slaves throughout the South formed benevolent societies to respond to abject hunger, illness and the fear of a pauper's grave. The Fair Hope Benevolent Society in Uniontown, Alabama, provides an unprecedented look at the complex and morally ambiguous juxtaposition of the ...
One of the last remaining black benevolent societies, known as "The Fair Hope Benevolent Society" in Uniontown, Ala., experiences development, struggles, contributions and a gradual loss of tradition.
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4. Dez. 2013 · The Contradictions of Fair Hope is a new documentary film directed by S. Epatha Merkerson and Rockell Metcalf In July of 1865. Over 4 million slaves have been freed. Forced to roam the antebellum countryside, many of them are ill prepared and unable to cope with the realities of their new-found f...
12. März 2013 · A documentary, The Contradictions of Fair Hope, directed by S. EPATHA MERKERSON, who played Lt. Anita Van Buren in Law and Order for over 15 years, and attorney ROCKELL METCALF, turns the camera on modern-day Hale County, Alabama, and traces the story of Metcalf’s family involvement with the Fair Hope Benevolent Society. The film looks at a possible future reconciling the younger festival ...
