| Movie Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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Beah: A Black Woman Speaks. Prod. by Lisa Gay Hamilton, Neda Armian, Jonathan Demme, and Joe Viola, 2003. 90 mins. (Women Make Movies, 462 Broadway, Suite 500WS, New York, NY 10013; 212-925-0606, ext. 317; <orders@wmm.com>; <www.wmm.com> [Sept. 13, 2004])

As though at the denouement of a melodramatic "women's picture," Beah closes as the ashes of a recently departed, angry-to-the-end black woman are triumphantly scattered over the white crosses of a Confederate graveyard in Vicksburg, Mississippi. The ashes were those of Beulah Richardson, better known by her stage name of Beah Richards, a black actor whose life might have been seen as a tragedy but for the dauntless spirit that drove it.

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