Having made two other acclaimed films on landmark civil rights cases, "The Loving Story" and " The Rape of Recy Taylor," she’s got it down: people and relationships are paramount. The legal saga that ensued eventually put longstanding wrongs of Southern justice on trial.įilmmaker Nancy Buirski has an elegant, judicious way of imparting the facts of the case, taking not just the political temperature of the moment (boiling) but finely sketching the character and minds of the people involved. Gary Duncan, an elder relative of two of the black boys, attempted to defuse the situation and ended up on trial for assault simply by patting one of the white boys on the shoulder. The documentary "A Crime in the Bayou" concerns a similar incident down in 1966 Louisiana, in which young white boys leaving a recently desegregated school taunted their black peers.
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