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In Intolerable Burden citizens of Drew, Mississippi, both black and white, tell the story of the
desegregation and resegregation of the local public schools. This documentary, by
dispensing with the omniscient narrator and taking the story past the movement years into
the present, makes important contributions both to the use of oral history in film and to the
scholarship on, and public policy discussions about, school desegregation and its impact on
education.Intolerable Burden is divided into four approximately equal sections, each marked …

Using period film footage, photographs, and interviews with local residents, both black and
white, the hour long film portrays three distinctive, interrelated periods in recent Southern
history: the segregation era, the civil rights years, and the decades since the civil rights
movement. It invites viewers to consider what has changed, what has not, and why?

Movie Reviews 1139 gated black schools are described as sincere but limited by a lack of
resources. The second section focuses on Mae Bertha Carter and Matthew Carter, two black
sharecroppers who took advantage of a freedom-ofchoice plan and sent seven of their
children to schools that had previously been all-white. Between 1965 and 1970, the Carter
children were the only black students in their schools. In response, a segregationist
landowner evicted the Carters from their house, and the Carter children were isolated at …

The book ends with a look into the future and fittingly asks poignant questions:" Thirty years
ago, racial oppression was the main contradiction. Today the contradictions we face are
economic, social and environmenta... How do we make a living"?(p. 534) One of the greatest
assets of Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching is access to the archives of
activists and authors who framed the words and actions that moved a nation. Some of the
works of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, June Jordan, Caesar Chavez, Bayard Rustin …