Main Street, Norfolk, Virginia, 16-17 Aug 2017: A Photo Essay

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Main Street, Norfolk, Virginia, 16-17 Aug 2017: A Photo Essay (2018)

Directed by Ruth Rachel Anderson-Avraham

Documentary · 3m

Following the white supremacist "Unite the Right" rally, parallel counterprotests, and the murder of Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, Virginia on 12 August 2017, residents of Norfolk, Virginia gather in order to demand the removal of "Johnny Reb", a memorial to Confederate soldiers who lost their lives during the Civil War towering eight stories high over the Downtown Banking District at the intersection of East Main Street and Commercial Place. Still photographs by Ruth Rachel Anderson-Avraham. "Poor Black Annie" performed by Clayton Horsley and recorded by the Blue Ridge Institute and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.

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Director
Ruth Rachel Anderson-Avraham
Writer
Ruth Rachel Anderson-Avraham
Editor
Ruth Rachel Anderson-Avraham
Producer
Ruth Rachel Anderson-Avraham

Details

Release date
2018-01-20
Runtime
3m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
EN