A Season with the Forgotten Farmers (Q15335)
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A UA CPT&R documentary from The Alabama Experience series hosted online at the AAPB (transcript generated using MS Azure Video Indexer service V2)
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A Season with the Forgotten Farmers
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A UA CPT&R documentary from The Alabama Experience series hosted online at the AAPB (transcript generated using MS Azure Video Indexer service V2)
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Follows John Henry Travis from Hale County, Alabama and Rev. John Ward from Perry County, Alabama as they prepare and harvest their farms for the 1996 season.
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The piece highlights their life and work as African American farmers in the black belt, which stretches across Alabama and Mississippi. While they are each several generations into their farms, they credit all their hard work to faith and patience.
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The piece also covers what got them into farming, how farming works (equipment, planting, etc.), issues that comes with farming, harvesting, and more.
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