Congratulations, Victor Luckerson... this is a huge accomplishment! Please take it in and let it yourself feel the roots and tendrils you've grown to be able to reach down deep and tell this critically, emotionally, and historically important story today! All best, Will it be recorded? I hope so, selfishly, as I may not be able to be on line. No matter what, it will be a profound, important event. Thank you for doing this!
China Galland, Writer/Producer, author of the book "Love Cemetery, Unburying the Secret History of Slaves.” We’ve just completed producing a documentary that grew out of the book. The doc is titled ”Resurrecting Love".
If you're interested in seeing the entire documentary, write to us c/o chinagalland@yahoo.com and request a link. No charge.
On our resurrectinglovemovie.org website you can find comments and feedback from African Americans and others at a showing last summer, 7/23 in NYC. Many of the African Americans who attended talked about the importance of knowing this history - the story of Love Cemetery itself, outside of Marshall, Texas, but also the essential knowledge whether written and/or oral that surrounds all the Black cemeteries throughout the United States and abroad.
This is ultimately what our film is about -- the importance of history and our need to re-weave our communities with the truth of these stories. "Resurrecting Love" is framed around the rights and concerns of the Love Cemetery descendents' families getting locked out the cemetery they themselves own and have the deed to prove it. All was fine until the 1960's and the advent of the Civil Rights movement and the visit of Martin Luther King to the Marshall, TX, campuses of the two HBCU’s that were there at the time: Wiley College and Bishop College. Bishop was renamed and moved to Dallas. Wiley is still there in Marshall and is famous for their 1939 championship debate team with James Farmer, Jr. Denzel Washington made it into the movie “The Great Debaters” based on the true story of the debate that led the to become the U.S. championship debaters at a time when Black students were largely forbidden to debate white students.
The Love community never gave up on honoring their ancestors. When we met them 40 years after their lockout, our team immediately said yes when they asked us to help them regain access and clean the graves. They wanted our help and documentation on film to push Texas into enforcing their own laws that require access to cemeteries no matter what.
Love Cemetery dates back to the days of enslavement and burials took place up until the Civil Rights movement of the 1960's in nearby Marshall, TX.
Enough. Should you want more information you can write to me: China Galland,
Congratulations, Victor Luckerson... this is a huge accomplishment! Please take it in and let it yourself feel the roots and tendrils you've grown to be able to reach down deep and tell this critically, emotionally, and historically important story today! All best, Will it be recorded? I hope so, selfishly, as I may not be able to be on line. No matter what, it will be a profound, important event. Thank you for doing this!
China Galland, Writer/Producer, author of the book "Love Cemetery, Unburying the Secret History of Slaves.” We’ve just completed producing a documentary that grew out of the book. The doc is titled ”Resurrecting Love".
See our resurrectinglovemovie.org website for short video clips from the 76 minute documentary.
If you're interested in seeing the entire documentary, write to us c/o chinagalland@yahoo.com and request a link. No charge.
On our resurrectinglovemovie.org website you can find comments and feedback from African Americans and others at a showing last summer, 7/23 in NYC. Many of the African Americans who attended talked about the importance of knowing this history - the story of Love Cemetery itself, outside of Marshall, Texas, but also the essential knowledge whether written and/or oral that surrounds all the Black cemeteries throughout the United States and abroad.
This is ultimately what our film is about -- the importance of history and our need to re-weave our communities with the truth of these stories. "Resurrecting Love" is framed around the rights and concerns of the Love Cemetery descendents' families getting locked out the cemetery they themselves own and have the deed to prove it. All was fine until the 1960's and the advent of the Civil Rights movement and the visit of Martin Luther King to the Marshall, TX, campuses of the two HBCU’s that were there at the time: Wiley College and Bishop College. Bishop was renamed and moved to Dallas. Wiley is still there in Marshall and is famous for their 1939 championship debate team with James Farmer, Jr. Denzel Washington made it into the movie “The Great Debaters” based on the true story of the debate that led the to become the U.S. championship debaters at a time when Black students were largely forbidden to debate white students.
The Love community never gave up on honoring their ancestors. When we met them 40 years after their lockout, our team immediately said yes when they asked us to help them regain access and clean the graves. They wanted our help and documentation on film to push Texas into enforcing their own laws that require access to cemeteries no matter what.
Love Cemetery dates back to the days of enslavement and burials took place up until the Civil Rights movement of the 1960's in nearby Marshall, TX.
Enough. Should you want more information you can write to me: China Galland,
chinagalland@yahoo.com
chinagalland@gmail.com
resurrectinglovemovie.org
Lynchings are still occurring in the deep south:
DOI: 10.23880/ijfsc-16000366
Bryan Burnett