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The Intolerable Burden. Dir. by Chea Prince. Prod by Constance Curry, 2002. 56 mins. (First Run/Icarus Films, 32 Court St., 21st Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11201; 718-488-8900; < www.frif.com > [Sept. 13, 2004])

This documentary film is divided into three sections that depict a pattern of segregation, desegregation, and "resegregation" in Drew, Mississippi, a country town nestled amidst plantations in Sunflower County. 1
      The first section deals with the era of formal apartheid and sharecropping, when school terms for African American students were shortened to accommodate the need for black field workers. The teachers in the segregated black schools are described as sincere but limited by a lack of resources. 2


 
Figure 1
    The Intolerable Burden focuses on the sharecroppers Mae Bertha Carter and Matthew Carter, who sent seven of their thirteen children to formerly all-white schools under a freedom-of-choice plan in Drew, Mississippi, in 1965. Pictured above, the Carter children were the only African Americans to integrate their school. Courtesy FirstRun/Icarus Films.
 



 
Figure 1
    After a federal court ordered the racially balanced integration of public schools in Drew, Mississippi, many white families withdrew their children from Drew High School and sent them to the private North Sunflower Academy, replacing de jure segregation with a less formal pattern of racial separation. The lone white student to remain in this class was Janet Free, pictured in the school's 1971 yearbook. Courtesy FirstRun/Icarus Films.
 
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