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After the Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education found that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional, little more than token efforts were made to desegregate schools in the South. That changed dramatically on October 29, 1969, when the high court ordered Mississippi schools to fully — and immediately — desegregate. As a result, a group of children, including six-year-old Douglas Blackmon, entered school in the fall of 1970 as part of the first class of Black and white students to attend all 12 grades together in rural Leland, Mississippi. Set against vast historic and demographic changes unfolding across America, THE HARVEST: INTEGRATING MISSISSIPPI'S SCHOOLS steps back in time to explore Mississippi’s brutal history of racial intolerance and segregation — a world in which schools for Black children were not only separate but deeply underfunded, often inaccessible, and sometimes nonexistent.  

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Produced By
Douglas A. Blackmon
Sam Pollard

Edited By 
Jon Neuburger 
Mary Manhardt
Anne Craddock Decorte

Cinematography By
Ryan Earl Parker

Original Score By
J.R. Shirakbari

Written By
Douglas A. Blackmon

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Executive Producer
Jeff Bieber

Archival Producer
Pearl Lieberman

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Salme M. López Sabina

Assistant Editor
Robert Gordon

Assistant Camera
Breezy Lucia

Associate Producers
Alexa A. Harris
Nicholas Gibiser
Andrea Edwards
Danielle Fisher

Other Camera Assistants
Christopher Watkins
Brian Richard

Sound Recordists
Michael Hunkele
Booker Edwards
George Ingmire

Additional Photography By
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Michael Blackmon

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“You Can't Hurry God"
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Special Thanks
Stephanie Patton
Creative Media Industries Institute, Georgia State University

The Harvest Original Production Funding Provided By
National Endowment for The Humanities
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Arthur Vining Davis Foundations
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The Better Angels Society and Jeannie And Jonathan Lavine Through The Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize For Film
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Jared Tetreau

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Director of Audience Development 
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Development Producer
Charlotte Porter

Director of Production
Vanessa Ruiz

Director of Business Operations & Finance
Nancy Sherman

Senior Series Producer  
Susan Bellows

Executive Producer    
Cameo George

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The Harvest Original Production Funding Provided By
National Endowment for The Humanities
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Arthur Vining Davis Foundations
The Fullerton Family Charitable Fund Through
The Better Angels Society
The Better Angels Society and Jeannie And Jonathan Lavine Through The Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize For Film
The WNET Group’s Chasing The Dream

American Experience Original Production Funding Provided By

Corporation For Public Broadcasting
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Liberty Mutual Insurance
Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation
The Documentary Investment Group