Faubourg Treme : the untold story of Black New Orleans /
Long ago during slavery, Faubourg Treme was home to the largest community of free black people in the Deep South and a hotbed of political ferment. Here black and white, free and enslaved, rich and poor co-habitated, collaborated, and clashed to create much of what defines New Orleans culture up to...
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| Format: | Video DVD |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Closed-captioned. |
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Berkeley, CA :
Serendipity Films LLC,
2008.
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| Summary: | Long ago during slavery, Faubourg Treme was home to the largest community of free black people in the Deep South and a hotbed of political ferment. Here black and white, free and enslaved, rich and poor co-habitated, collaborated, and clashed to create much of what defines New Orleans culture up to the present day. Founded as a suburb (or faubourg in French) of the original colonial city, the neighborhood developed during French rule and many families like the Trevignes kept speaking French as their first language until the late 1960's. Treme was the home of the Tribune, the first black daily newspaper in the US. During Reconstruction, activits from Treme pushed for equal treatment under the law and for integration. And after Reconstruction's defeat, a "Citizens Committee" legally challenged the rewegregation of public transportation resulting in the infamous Plessy vs.Ferfuson Supreme Court case. New Orlean's Times Picayune columnist Lolis Eric Elie who bought a historic house in Treme in the 1990's when the area was struggling to recover from the crack epidemic. Rather than flee the blighted inner city, Elie begins renovating his dilapidated home and in the process becomes obsessed with the area's mysterious and neglected past. Shot largely before Hurricane Katrina and edited afterwards, the film is both celebratory and elegiac in tone. |
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| Item Description: | A co-production of Serendipity Films LLC, WYES-TV/New Orleans & Louisiana Public Broadcasting. Distributed by California Newsreel. Videorecording. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (68 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Format: | DVD. |
| Production Credits: | Directed by Dawn Logsdon. Written and co-directed by Lolis Eric Elie. Composer Derrick Hodge. Narrator JoNell Kennedy. Executive producers Stanley Nelson, Wynton Marsalis. |