Purge This Land - Excerpt
Open City Documentary Festival • 10m
In 1917, after the national guard allowed rioting white to kill over 100 black citizens and burn down black neighborhoods, Marcus Garvey gave a speech in which he said, “With all the service that the Negro gave he is still a despised creature in the eye of the white people, for if he were not to them despised, the whites of this country would never allow such outrages as the East St. Louis massacre."
Dir. Lee Anne Schmitt - 2017 - USA
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