Couldn't Go To School

Sylvester Hoover of Delta Blues Legend Tours describes life as a sharecropper. This video is part of a documentary called Blues and Abstract Truths by photographer, filmmaker Ed Silvera for The Delta Media Project in association with Mississippi Valley State University, Delta Research and Cultural Institute. www.deltamediaproject.com

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• education
• blues
• plantation
• mississippi
• discrimination
• sharecropping

[mhaire8]

Black history is an invaluable lens to the past. Without it there is a great possibility that mistakes will be repeated, and atrocities re-lived. The history of racism, especially as it relates to the Mississippi Delta, is ripe w/ human rights violations, many of which continue today.. The notion - "black racist" - is, in itself, a contradiction. No black elected official has the capacity to exact economic & political power in the Delta to systematically exploit and discriminate against whites.

[Bapman808]

Mr.Hoover nice man that's keeping Black History alive he have a store and musuem & Tours in (Baptist town)Greenwood Ms.I attended Robert Johnson 100th Birthday celebration in May on Mother's Day 2011.My Great Aunt stayed on the same street Young St were robert Johnson died.Filmmakers was there @ the celebration.I'm from Louisiana.

[msinstallerms]

Oh yes they do ask David Jordan and ask him how he managed to obtain two polital positions one as a state senator and the other as city council..... and while your at it ask Judge Osborne who should always have a unbiased outlook managed to get away with publicly slandering current public officials

[msinstallerms]

you couldnt go to school and now you will not teach and promote education with your kids stop blaming the past and making excuses and start executing for the future... bitching about the past does nothing for the future and in this location its now a white minority governed by black racist so please spare me the sorrow its no different now than it was 100 years ago only instead of making progress we wanna dwell on 100 years ago.. utilize your rights for better

[fancyod]

My mother was not allow to use the library as a young woman.Its great that thing change

[sffreeman07]

I'm a teacher and I would like to use this video when I teach Sounder. How do I save this video on my hard drive, because we don't have internet in my private school classroom?