The Mississippi Humanities Council (MHC) is partnering with the Mississippi Film Office and the Mississippi Department of Archives and History to bring free, high-quality documentary film screenings to public audiences each month for the next year.
Up next is ” It’s in the Voices,” by filmmaker Field Humphrey. August 13th at 2:0m
Clint Bagley sits at a table in the Mississippi Department of Archives and History and locates a cassette tape from 1975. On it is the interview, he conducted with Daisy Greene, an elderly woman from his hometown of Greenville, Mississippi. Clint plays the tape and listens to the voice of his long deceased friend. For Clint, Daisy’s tranquil, Delta accent carries the same weight it did so many years ago. He ruminates over Daisy’s words as she recalls her experiences as a Black educator in the Mississippi Delta and her story of survival during the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. As Daisy’s story unfolds, we learn how her words sparked a nationally-recognized oral history program that chronicled disparate voices of the Mississippi Delta’s once progressive bastion.
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion featuring the filmmaker, Field Humphrey, and Clinton Bagley from the film.
