History

An Army Rising Up

Drawing from intimate interviews with high school students and educators in the Mississippi Delta, student-shot footage, and archival material, An Army Rising Up is a short documentary that follows the journey of twenty-two high schoolers from the Mississippi Delta as they explore and document their communities’ connections to Civil Rights icons Emmett Till and Fannie Lou Hamer.

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